2 a.m. wake up call

On Thursday June 8, Chase and I ate dinner and got in bed. We had rented a couple of movies and like always I was out after the first.  We had both fallen sound asleep.  The next thing I knew I was sitting up in an unbelievable amount of pain.  There was a sharp stabbing feeling in my chest  and back that radiated down my left arm (which was staring to lose sensation). I tried standing up to go get a drink,  I took a few tums (thinking it could have been REALLY BAD heartburn).  Nothing was helping.  By this point there were tears running down my face.  Crying made the pain worse.

  I was scared, I thought i was having a Heart Attack.  In all my medical classes i have taken, you learn chest pain and left arm pain/numbness in NOT a good sign.

I tapped Chase and said "I think i'm having a heart attack!"

Chase immediate got up and said what do we need to do.

He gave me a blessing, and then talked about what we should do.

Me being the penny pincher that i am did not want to go to the E.R. due to costs.  

But after an hour, i couldn't take it anymore.  

We got the insurance cards and headed over to Timp Hospital.  

We got registered and put in a room.  

They did an EKG, Chest X-Ray, Blood Tests, etc...

While waiting for the tests to come back, Chase and I watched Cupcake Wars and Chopped.  (I truly have the best husband for going to the ER with me at 3 in morning and watching cupcake wars)

Every time i would start to fall asleep, my pulse would drop below 50, and all the machines would beep, causing Chase and I to both wake up.

about an hour later...

Everything came back clear.  

My heart is perfectly healthy

My Kidneys looked great

My Lungs looked great except...

that the lining on the inside of my left lung was inflamed. 

This was causing my rib cage to stab at my lung and cause the pain everywhere.

They shot me up with some Naproxen, which truly helped the pain.

Apparently so many things can cause pleurisy, so we are unsure of what onset it. 

Thankfully we know that everything looks great and is healthy and we know what to do IF it does happen again.  

I can say i am truly grateful for my sweet husband and for the way he lives to be worthy of holding the priesthood.  I am grateful that he can give me blessings when i need them.  He is such an inspiration to me, and i strive to live more and more like him each day.  He is my best friend!