Good to know I'm not the only one with glue issues and these things, lol. Well, see what happened is, they set me up for an EKG, so they put like 12 of those things all over your body. Then they did a strip for like 30 seconds... like that's gonna show them anything
And then, after is was over, they took them off. No biggie. But then, this nurse had this great idea to use a stethoscope to listen to my heart, and she started freaking for a monitor because I was doing it again. So then they did the super big pads, 5 of them, hooked up to the regular heart monitor. Then they called the EKG lady back, and she did another 12 of her stickies. And even though she only did another 30 second strip, she asked me not to remove them yet. So I sat there for hours with like 17 of these stickies on my, and by the time they let me go and get dressed again... the things were all melty stuck on me, lol. So I think they are staying for a bit. Oh well, its winter. No one has to know they are here for a bit, lol.
But yeah, apparently it isn't a once in a while thing. It kind of goes back years, and just points a finger at the Canadian health system. When I was admitted to the hospital for observation before having Greg, a nurse came in to do my vitals and freaked because my heartbeat was irregular. I remember she called the Dr at home in the middle of the night, and then she came back and said he'd heard it already and it was nothing. So whatever right??
So I go on, not thinking anything of it, but then I'm getting dizzy spells starting about 2 years ago, and I get really tired and my heart is thudding and I'm getting chest pain. So I tell my Dr at the time about it (the same one who said I didn't have an infection and wasn't in labour with Devon
), and he didn't even listen to my chest, he was just like 'its chest wall pain. Everyone gets it.' And I'm like, 'man, I'm getting dizzy and stuff.' And he just said it was normal. So I thought I was normal!!
And then no one has really had a reason to listen to my heart lately. Like I don't make it a habit to just ask people to listen to it you know. So then, when I was having my cerclage placed on the 13th, it happened under general anesthetic. So the surgeon freaked and called the cardiologist in. And she said it might be a one off thing, but then its done it since then, I can feel the thudding. And I guess it is just picking up, because it hasn't stopped today, even since being home.
So I don't think its a one off thing. But I don't know about the scar tissue thing. I've never had anyone do anything to my heart, so how could I have scar tissue. The nurse said I also have a grade 2 murmer, but she said they go all the way up to grade 6, so she isn't worried yet. I don't know...
But I'm skeeved about the cheap out on the ultrasound, lol. Damn, that's why I went there! I wanted her to wake this kid up and get it rolling or something, and all she got before she shut off her machine was one little arm flick, and one little leg wiggle... I got gypped!