I had a little unplanned downtime at the end of July. I spent five days visiting my friends at St. John’s Hospital after the amyloidosis decided to attack my stomach and then my heart. I had already received a cardioversion a week prior and thought I had everything under control until early one morning I woke up with extreme abdominal pain and vomiting.
After several hours in the ER, I was admitted to my room for overnight observation. All seemed okay until the next morning when I started round two with the vomiting. As the day before, the pain and vomiting subsided by nightfall and all was well. The next morning, I was anxious to be released and was cleaning up when my heart went out of rhythm as it did the week before. Just so you know, you get a lot of unwanted attention when that happens. After a few meds, the heart seemed to slip back in rhythm, and all was good once again.
I was prepping for discharge when my heart doctor decided to keep me and put me on a new medication that required hospitalization. Long story short, the new meds seem to be working and I’m out doing what I do best – trying to work. Hopefully the stamina will return soon.