A Fib Missed Me, Hit My Mom!

[StretchL]

Peg, I just read your post to my mom and she got a big kick out of it!

Susan, thank you for that alert. We're going to check this out, first by calling the dentist's office to find out exactly what numbing med they gave her.

We went walking around the hallways here a little while ago. She did great! Reminded me so much of Noni walking me through the hallways of the step down unit at Beth Israel.

When I told Noni about it she said that it will be her in the hospital next, with my mom walking her through the hallways during her recovery!

 

[ruth]

Stretch -

Great to hear Mom is up & doing the hallways. I played a trick on my Surgeon's aide when I was out walking I saw him and he said I could be released that day. I smiled and shook the hand in my robe pocket as though I was holding keys and said "Yup, that's where I'm heading, out to the garage & home!" He gave me a "deer-in-the-headlights" look for a second then smiled and said "hey, you almost got me with that!"

Give mom my best, that's great that she's not going to be on Coumadin and that she's in NSR. With luck the a-fib was an isolated event, perhaps brought on by stress and/or stress and some shot the dentist used.

Oh, and tell your mom that she raised a great son!

Best Regards,
Ruth

 

[StretchL]

That's a funny story Ruth!

But I won't lie to my mom and tell her what you told me to tell her about me.

We checked with the dentist's office and the drug they gave her was "Carbocaine." It's apparently used either with or without epinephrine. The dentist's office specifically said that mama was given "carbocaine without epinephrine."

 

[Adrienne]

Glad to hear that your mom is in NSR and that she won't have to take Coumadin. Keep us posted.

 

[Christina L]

We are always talking here on

We are always talking here on

VR.com about a-fib and our fears of it. I am so thankful to read here that a-fib can be lived with. As a former medical transcriptionist, I learned that a-fib is really, really common in the elderly - even people with "perfect" hearts. I also learned that most people on their demise in their 80s and 90s have enlargement of their hearts to some degree.

Yes, we with defective hearts are at greater risk for these things, but we are not the only ones on whom the heart can wreak havoc with.

Stretch - sorry to hear about your mom's bout with a-fib and hope that she will go on to live 10 plus years without another darned episode!

Christina L

 

[Karlynn]

So glad to read your Mom is doing better and that Coumadin is not needed at this time. Sounds like she's getting great care from doctor and son! Continued best wishes.

 

[StretchL]

Thanks for asking Susan. I was just logging on to post the latest.

My mom was discharged today, and is back home. She's feeling kind of weak, probably from lack of sleep in the hospital as much as from the afib, but her spirits are *very* high, and all-in-all she doesn't seem to be too much worse from the wear.

I just arrived back home in Richmond, but Noni and I are planning to head back down there for Easter, so we'll see her again soon.

Many, many thanks to everyone for your thoughts, prayers, concerns, and messages to her. She thinks I have a great bunch of friends here. And I agree!

 

[Wise]

Glad to hear your mom is progressing and is home. May she continue to improve and get stronger!

 

[Guest]

Excellent news that she is home, Stretch .

Thoughts/prayers continuing for a SUCCESSFUL recovery!



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[gijanet]

What a wicked son you are.............

What a wicked son you are.............

to duck that curve ball! Seriously,chiming in late as always (even though I am the significant other, I forget to check this forum), I am so sorry to hear that your mom has been having a rough go of it. I will keep her in my prayers that the Afib was just a one time thing, a freak occurence, and that she has no more episodes. Glad to hear that everyone is home safely. (That's the one good thing about chiming in late. You get to read the happy ending first!) Hugs. J.