Back in September of 2004, while teaching in my classroom, I begin to have "squeezing" pain in my chest and my heart was beating erratically. I gave my students some seat work, and walked out into the hallway where one of the hall monitors set, and asked him to please go get the school nurse, because I believed I was having a "heart attack!" The monitor ran upstairs as fast as possible, and returned with the nurse. The nurse came down immediately, and called #911. She examined me, and started to question me. It was difficult for me to speak, because I was having trouble breathing. The nurse could not get a pulse, because of my rapid heartbeat! In the ambulance, the attendants put me on oxygen and the EKG machine. I was not told what had happened to me until I was dismissed two days later and only at my insistence! The doctors and nurses were actually going to leave me to my own conclusions! One of the emergency room doctors, when I inquired about my experience, said,"Just don't let them tell you, you had indigestion!" I was not about to let that happen, however, and so I was finally told by my primary physician, that I had an "angina attack....same as heart attack." I guess they try to soften the blow, by changing the language, but an angina attack is a heart attack, only a milder form, and I felt every one of the symptoms of a heart attack!
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Back in September of 2004, while teaching in my classroom, I begin to have "squeezing" pain in my chest and my heart was beating erratically. I gave my students some seat work, and walked out into the hallway where one of the hall monitors set, and asked him to please go get the school nurse, because I believed I was having a "heart attack!" The monitor ran upstairs as fast as possible, and returned with the nurse. The nurse came down immediately, and called #911. She examined me, and started to question me. It was difficult for me to speak, because I was having trouble breathing. The nurse could not get a pulse, because of my rapid heartbeat! In the ambulance, the attendants put me on oxygen and the EKG machine. I was not told what had happened to me until I was dismissed two days later and only at my insistence! The doctors and nurses were actually going to leave me to my own conclusions! One of the emergency room doctors, when I inquired about my experience, said,"Just don't let them tell you, you had indigestion!" I was not about to let that happen, however, and so I was finally told by my primary physician, that I had an "angina attack....same as heart attack." I guess they try to soften the blow, by changing the language, but an angina attack is a heart attack, only a milder form, and I felt every one of the symptoms of a heart attack!
January 6, 2010 - 1:27pmThis Comment
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