• Jan. 2, 2007
What you do not want to hear at 6:23 a.m...
"Ma'am, I am calling to let you know, the medics are taking Sgt. Wagle to the ER."
Talk about giving me one of the biggest scares of my life! The Man is never sick. Literally! In nineteen years of being in the military, he has missed two days of work. The first, was a couple of years ago when he had a kidney stone (and he tried to go to work that day), and the second was this evening.
Early this morning (about 5am) he was toward the end of his shift when he started feeling "not right.” He was nauseous, a bit light headed, then his heart started racing. He thought he could walk it off, but after about 30 mins it would not go away.
When his mother was 47, she died of a heart attack, I have been paranoid about his heart ever since. I do not feel the military doctors here take it seriously. At his yearly check up, he is always told his heart must be fine because his cholesterol levels are normal. (?)
After awhile David’s troops thought the medics should be called. After the medics decided to take him to the ER in town, the Desk called me. By time I got to the hospital his heart was not racing, however, he was still feeling light headed and nauseous. The doctors do not know what happened. They put him on an EKG, took blood work, and a chest X-ray, and everything came up fine! He had a couple of things on the blood work come up a bit high/low ...but nothing remarkable...and nothing that should have caused his heart to react that way.
He is home and feeling better, but he still gets nauseous and is feeling a bit weak. The weakness may be because he had not slept in about 24 hours...but I do not understand the nausea. We asked the doctor if he could be coming down with the flu and that the heart racing was his body adjusting. He thinks the nausea is a coincidence, which makes no since to me at all...how can it be a coincidence if they both started at the same time?
David is supposed to follow up with the base, it probably was a fluke thing...but they just are not sure. He had aspirations of working tonight (he has a much better work ethic than I do!) However, by 1pm he still was not able to go to sleep because of the nausea. You have no idea how it pained him to call his boss and tell him he could not come in tonight!
Right now, I am just relieved that it does not seem to be anything serious, and that he is O.K. I am so grateful for great neighbors who came right over to take care of the girls, wonderful friends who called and brought dinner over for us, and a fabulous church family who I know was praying all day. Most of all, I am grateful for a loving and merciful Father who shows us his love everyday. Sometimes, by scaring us *just enough so that we remember to not take ONE day for granted.
Comments
• Jan. 3, 2007
Oh My...
Posted by cbinco
Tammie! I'm so glad to hear the Dave is feeling better and I hope they can find out what was causing it! Did he eat anything unusual that day..MSG, etc?
Thank you Lord for protecting Dave and bringing him home to his family!
~Chrisyt
