No More Ax

I took these photos on my drive home yesterday. I'd say it was about 4pm, and we had fall colors everywhere, but snow on the mountains. I swear I must have seen at least 5 rainbows on my way home. It was a wild drive. But, actually, it was a wild day.
I didn't plan on blogging much about this, but thought I would for one major reason. Paying attention to your body.













A few years ago, hubs and I were eating lunch at a restaurant and he started having pain in his chest. We just assumed it was indigestion. When it started moving into his arm and more pressure, we decided to take him to the hospital. Making a really long story short, it was indigestion and he was out the next day. Although, he was supposed to have stress tests as a follow-up, he didn't. You know what great patients doctors make. He didn't follow-up.
And, has had no problems since.
Well, all of that changed Thursday morning. Around 1am, he started having the same pain. He ignored it. About an hour and a half later, 2:30am-ish, he started feeling the pain in his arm and into his jaw. He finally decided eh-maybe we should go to the hospital.
32 degrees, dark as can be and raining, we drove the hour to the hospital. The whole drive my mind was wrapped around whether he was going to fall over (he was in a lot of pain), having an accident or hitting a deer. It wasn't a fun drive for either one of us.













The usual going's on when you arrive to an ER with chest pain. Got him right in, did all the tests, etc. But didn't like what they saw. Sandpoint has a pretty small hospital so they wanted to send him somewhere else. At about 4am, they careflighted him to another hospital another hour away. I then followed.
I don't need to go through every detail except to say that he did have a 'mild' heart attack and had to have a stint put in. He's still in the hospital today, and even though he felt great this morning and was supposed to go home, they have decided to keep him a little longer.













It sounds like everything will be okay. He doesn't seem to be too stressed about anything except that he will not grow old gracefully. Oh and that he's the worst patient ever.
But.. the doctors did say that it was a good thing he decided to come in when he did and not brush it off as indigestion.
He had been working on the property all day, splitting and hauling wood etc.. and had planned on doing that all day Thursday too. It's frightening now to think if we had been here at home and he had a full blown attack. An hour away from a hospital is not comforting.

It was definitely a long hard day, and I'm impressed I stayed awake with all the driving. But, as I was driving home and seeing the beautiful scenery and all the rainbows, it just makes you stop and think.
Think about what's important and what's not. Pay more attention to your surroundings. I know, it sounds like a hallmark card. I guess you think like that sometimes after a day like yesterday.

So anyway, I think everything will be fine and the DR. will be back at work as soon as he can. I might have to take the ax and chainsaw away from him though.