Saturday, February 20, 2010
Friday, February 19, 2010
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Oh, how I am spoiled
OH, how my baby is spoiled by her Grandma and Grandpa! We spent the weekend snowed in with them. These are a few things Julia learned!
One can eat banana's in bed with Grandma
If you bring a pile of books to Grandma she will read them over and over and over again!
Grandpa lets you control the remote!
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Diagnosis
David is home and doing well. The diagnosis was "stable angina". This is what Wikipedia says about stable angina.
"Angina pectoris, commonly known as angina, is severe chest pain[1] due to ischemia (a lack of blood and hence oxygen supply) of the heart muscle, generally due to obstruction or spasm of the coronary arteries (the heart's blood vessels). Coronary artery disease, the main cause of angina, is due to atherosclerosis of the cardiac arteries. The term derives from the Latin angina ("infection of the throat") from the Greek ἀγχόνη ankhone ("strangling"), and the Latin pectus ("chest"), and can therefore be translated as "a strangling feeling in the chest".
It is not common to equate severity of angina with risk of fatal cardiac events. There is a weak relationship between severity of pain and degree of oxygen deprivation in the heart muscle (i.e., there can be severe pain with little or no risk of a heart attack, and a heart attack can occur without pain).
Worsening ("crescendo") angina attacks, sudden-onset angina at rest, and angina lasting more than 15 minutes are symptoms of unstable angina (usually grouped with similar conditions as the acute coronary syndrome). As these may herald myocardial infarction (a heart attack), they require urgent medical attention and are generally treated as a presumed heart attack."
So David is taking medication to help his blood and oxygen supply.
"Angina pectoris, commonly known as angina, is severe chest pain[1] due to ischemia (a lack of blood and hence oxygen supply) of the heart muscle, generally due to obstruction or spasm of the coronary arteries (the heart's blood vessels). Coronary artery disease, the main cause of angina, is due to atherosclerosis of the cardiac arteries. The term derives from the Latin angina ("infection of the throat") from the Greek ἀγχόνη ankhone ("strangling"), and the Latin pectus ("chest"), and can therefore be translated as "a strangling feeling in the chest".
It is not common to equate severity of angina with risk of fatal cardiac events. There is a weak relationship between severity of pain and degree of oxygen deprivation in the heart muscle (i.e., there can be severe pain with little or no risk of a heart attack, and a heart attack can occur without pain).
Worsening ("crescendo") angina attacks, sudden-onset angina at rest, and angina lasting more than 15 minutes are symptoms of unstable angina (usually grouped with similar conditions as the acute coronary syndrome). As these may herald myocardial infarction (a heart attack), they require urgent medical attention and are generally treated as a presumed heart attack."
So David is taking medication to help his blood and oxygen supply.
Monday, February 8, 2010
Out of surgery
David is out of surgery and doing well. He has lots of blockages, they will do a stress test on Tuesday to determine if there is one major spot causing the problems, if there isn't one big spot they will send him home on medicine to buy him some time before he has to have another stint put in. Either way pray that he will have a life style change...the 2 biggest are stop smoking and controlling his diabetes.
Saturday, February 6, 2010
body of believers that surround me
The last 24 hours have been a roller coaster of emotions! I am thankful for God's peace and for just being an AWESOME God!
On Monday David will have an ango---whatever that explores the heart to see if there is any blockages that can be broke up to get his heart functioning the best it can. He will also have some medicine switches to keep him from having another heart attack. This time, again, we were able to stop the heart attack because of quick response, nitro and of course a Bayer aspirin(we could be the commercial)!
The last 2 days I have been overwhelemed by the support I have received from others. I am so thankful for the support system that surrounds me! People helping me with kids, vechiles, and lifting up prayers!
Tonight I tried cashing David's pay check to have some cash and when the lady told me I couldn't do it, I had a complete melt down and just sat there bawling! The icing on the cake that set the tears coming. The woman was so gentle and gave me a hug(which I felt her praying for me as she held me) and called the manager to see if they could help me out. They graciously helped me out and I was again thankful for the body of believers that surrounded me.
On Monday David will have an ango---whatever that explores the heart to see if there is any blockages that can be broke up to get his heart functioning the best it can. He will also have some medicine switches to keep him from having another heart attack. This time, again, we were able to stop the heart attack because of quick response, nitro and of course a Bayer aspirin(we could be the commercial)!
The last 2 days I have been overwhelemed by the support I have received from others. I am so thankful for the support system that surrounds me! People helping me with kids, vechiles, and lifting up prayers!
Tonight I tried cashing David's pay check to have some cash and when the lady told me I couldn't do it, I had a complete melt down and just sat there bawling! The icing on the cake that set the tears coming. The woman was so gentle and gave me a hug(which I felt her praying for me as she held me) and called the manager to see if they could help me out. They graciously helped me out and I was again thankful for the body of believers that surrounded me.
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