Re: Scariest moment of your life
The scariest moment of my life was the day my 17-month son was born.
As a little bit of a back story about a year and a half before the delivery my wife and I were out shopping one day and she started getting heart palpatations. By the time we got home they were gone but we made sure she went to see a cardiologist because she was born with a heart valve that wouldn't open and had to have heart surgery right after she was born. The cardiologist monitored her and she had the stress test and Halter monitor and all that and nothing more happened. We asked the cardiologist about having children and he didn't seem to think there would be any complications.
The delivery seemingly went well. My wife didn't seem to be in a stress from the delivery until you looked down at her chest and you can see her heart beating what seemed like a million beats a minute. They tried all their tricks to get a fast heart beat to break and the fast heart beat would not break. They finally had to take her to the cardiac ICU. While there they were finally able to get her heart beat to slow down with some drugs. She wound up spending the next four days in the ICU.
Unfortunately for her our son was two days old before she got to spend any time with him. She got to see him for about 30 seconds after he was born before they wisked him away to work on her. Being in the ICU they didn't want to allow her down to the nursery to see him because she had to be on a heart monitor and watched at all times. After much pleading they finally relented and she was able to go down there with me and a couple nurses to spend some time with him. It was a very stressful time having to keep going between her room and the nursery. I wanted to be there for my wife and at the same time wanted to be down spending time with my son.
She is doing fine now. She had to be on a blood thinner for many months afterwards and is still on blood pressure medication but she has not had any episodes since. She sees her cardiologist every 6 months just in case.
When she talks about she said that she had no clue her heart was beating as fast as it was. She says she felt perfectly fine and the only indication something was wrong was how fast her chest was moving. It was very scary standing there watching her OB, the cardiologist on duty and the nurses trying to calm the beating down and none of their usual procedures were working.
Her heart beat was 250 beats per minute. We thank our lucky stars that her and her cardiologist insisted that she have the baby at the hospital we were at because they are an excellent cardio hospital instead of going to the hospital her OB is based out of.
The scariest moment of my life was the day my 17-month son was born.
As a little bit of a back story about a year and a half before the delivery my wife and I were out shopping one day and she started getting heart palpatations. By the time we got home they were gone but we made sure she went to see a cardiologist because she was born with a heart valve that wouldn't open and had to have heart surgery right after she was born. The cardiologist monitored her and she had the stress test and Halter monitor and all that and nothing more happened. We asked the cardiologist about having children and he didn't seem to think there would be any complications.
The delivery seemingly went well. My wife didn't seem to be in a stress from the delivery until you looked down at her chest and you can see her heart beating what seemed like a million beats a minute. They tried all their tricks to get a fast heart beat to break and the fast heart beat would not break. They finally had to take her to the cardiac ICU. While there they were finally able to get her heart beat to slow down with some drugs. She wound up spending the next four days in the ICU.
Unfortunately for her our son was two days old before she got to spend any time with him. She got to see him for about 30 seconds after he was born before they wisked him away to work on her. Being in the ICU they didn't want to allow her down to the nursery to see him because she had to be on a heart monitor and watched at all times. After much pleading they finally relented and she was able to go down there with me and a couple nurses to spend some time with him. It was a very stressful time having to keep going between her room and the nursery. I wanted to be there for my wife and at the same time wanted to be down spending time with my son.
She is doing fine now. She had to be on a blood thinner for many months afterwards and is still on blood pressure medication but she has not had any episodes since. She sees her cardiologist every 6 months just in case.
When she talks about she said that she had no clue her heart was beating as fast as it was. She says she felt perfectly fine and the only indication something was wrong was how fast her chest was moving. It was very scary standing there watching her OB, the cardiologist on duty and the nurses trying to calm the beating down and none of their usual procedures were working.
Her heart beat was 250 beats per minute. We thank our lucky stars that her and her cardiologist insisted that she have the baby at the hospital we were at because they are an excellent cardio hospital instead of going to the hospital her OB is based out of.
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