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Sep. 7th, 2005 07:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
outsdrFinally getting more settled in here at the new place. Internet and cable are hooked up, and I'm working on getting the phone set up. We have phone to the pole, but not the house. there's a buried cable running from the pole to, I assume, the trailer... but considering a number of local cats have found a hole in the skirting under the trailer and use it like a litter box, I'm in no hurry to crawl under there to find the wherever the buried cable comes out of the ground.
I did, however, buy a box of moth balls and dump around the hole the cats are going in, so hoepfully, that will help. I think I read somewhere that cats don't like the smell.
Labor day was mostly spent unpacking and settling in. Wednesday, I woke up at 5am feeling like someone was reaching in my chest and rummaging around, and my jaw hurt and my left arm was pretty painful too. By 6:00, it hadn't stopped, so I got up and showered and got dressed. I didn't feel sick, but I didn't feel like eating anything either. Everyone else was asleep. I didn't really want to go to the emergency room... but... I hurt. A lot. So I went. On my way there, I figured that I would look pretty silly if I wasn't having a heart attack and went to the emergency room... but then, I decided that if I _was_ having a heart attack, and _didn't_ go to the emergency room, I'd look even sillier.
Well, they did an EKG. I wasn't having a heart attack. They did chest x-rays and cat scans to eliminate blot clots and other life-threatening things. By the time I was released 3 hours later, they didn't know what it was for sure, but they knew that it wasn't anything life-threatening. What doctor thinks is that the stress I've been under and the physical exertion of all the moving inflamed my chest muscles and everything just decided to catch up with me at once now that it was all over. So he sent me home to rest for the day, and gave me a doctor's name to follow up with.
I can't wait to see my hospital bill, since I don't have health insurance yet. But I was worried enough to go in spite of that.
He said my lungs looked great, my heart is good and strong... the only problem he saw was that my aorta is beginning to calcify, which is from when I smoked, but that I can start taking steps now to keep it from getting worse.
So, as soon as I get my health insurance in another month and a half, I'll go see the recommended doctor and see what I need to do.
And that's been my excitement lately. I'm working on getting a wireless network set up here so we don't have computer cables going everywhere anymore.
I did, however, buy a box of moth balls and dump around the hole the cats are going in, so hoepfully, that will help. I think I read somewhere that cats don't like the smell.
Labor day was mostly spent unpacking and settling in. Wednesday, I woke up at 5am feeling like someone was reaching in my chest and rummaging around, and my jaw hurt and my left arm was pretty painful too. By 6:00, it hadn't stopped, so I got up and showered and got dressed. I didn't feel sick, but I didn't feel like eating anything either. Everyone else was asleep. I didn't really want to go to the emergency room... but... I hurt. A lot. So I went. On my way there, I figured that I would look pretty silly if I wasn't having a heart attack and went to the emergency room... but then, I decided that if I _was_ having a heart attack, and _didn't_ go to the emergency room, I'd look even sillier.
Well, they did an EKG. I wasn't having a heart attack. They did chest x-rays and cat scans to eliminate blot clots and other life-threatening things. By the time I was released 3 hours later, they didn't know what it was for sure, but they knew that it wasn't anything life-threatening. What doctor thinks is that the stress I've been under and the physical exertion of all the moving inflamed my chest muscles and everything just decided to catch up with me at once now that it was all over. So he sent me home to rest for the day, and gave me a doctor's name to follow up with.
I can't wait to see my hospital bill, since I don't have health insurance yet. But I was worried enough to go in spite of that.
He said my lungs looked great, my heart is good and strong... the only problem he saw was that my aorta is beginning to calcify, which is from when I smoked, but that I can start taking steps now to keep it from getting worse.
So, as soon as I get my health insurance in another month and a half, I'll go see the recommended doctor and see what I need to do.
And that's been my excitement lately. I'm working on getting a wireless network set up here so we don't have computer cables going everywhere anymore.
