Posted in Faith

So you guys thought I just dropped off the earth I bet.  (Which I do from time to time.)  But this time actually my husband had unexpected heart bypass surgery.  I am telling you this story, because if something like this ever happens to you I want you to do something. (Even if your husband is stubborn like mine.)

He came home from work about exactly one month ago.  He came into my study and said, "I had a funny feeling today in my chest." He pointed right in the center of his chest. He said, "I had a little bit of burning right here, then I felt a little bit of pressure, and then my arms felt tired." 

Well, I had heard that these could all be signs of a heart attack, so I called my mom who is a nurse.  She said, "Make him go to the emergency room right now!"  Well, of course he didn't want to go, because he really looked just fine right then.  It seemed pretty extreme.  Especially when you have a huge deductible on your insurance!  Finally I typed "symptoms of a heart attack" in to google, and I printed out this page that basically said if you have any of those symptoms he had he should check it out.  So we went.

They found nothing.  The doctor prescribed pepcid and I looked like a big paranoid idiot.  But I didn't care.  I said, "I will be wrong on this deal a hundred times rather than miss it once and suffer the consequences."  The ER doctor did mildly suggest that we follow up with a cardiologist soon to totally rule out the heart problem.  The real miracle here is that we actually did it.

The next Thurs. we were in the cardiologist's office and he suggested a stress test before sending us on the the gastro man to fix the reflux problem. 

The next morning the cardiologist called me and said, "Mrs. Khoury, I am very concerned about your husband.  I am so concerned that I'm afraid something might happen before we can get him scheduled for an agiogram."  (He flunked the stress test.)

So, that was about three weeks ago.  Turns out he had a huge blockage in the "widow maker" artery that supplies the front of the heart and another artery on that same side.  They couldn't stint there so he had to have double bypass surgery.

Miracles:

My husband is alive. He did not have a heart attack.  He does not have heart damage. I am thankful God has granted us some more years. Hope all of you had a happy Thanksgiving!