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De, Thankfully, there was a good end to the story.

She may need to drink more water as a rule, during the day, if saline brought her around. I have to watch that.

Also brings to mind something that happened to my mother long ago now. Turned out to be low Potassium. She was weak and slurring her speech, big time. My sister knew what it was and gave her half a banana and she was immediately fine. I think orange juice is another option.




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I spent part of last night at the hospital...
By: Decomposed
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Wed, 23 Aug 17 7:10 PM
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I was on the phone with my builder around 7:30 pm... hung up and found my wife on the floor outside of our bedroom, unconscious. For about two seconds, my life flashed before my eyes, then I saw that she was still breathing.

I called 911. Paramedics came in about ten minutes. By then she was groggy but able to answer some of their questions. Her BP was something like 190/130.

They took her to Emergency. She quickly improved with nothing but saline, and we were home by 11:30. There's no real diagnosis. Her blood sugar and the rest of the panel was fine. Her heart checked out okay, though they said they saw some sort of a gap in its beat that they didn't think was severe enough to have caused the incident.

Before this happened, she'd been feeling tired so she lay down. She got up later, walked to the door (still feeling fine) and . . . woke up with paramedics standing over her. Clearly, she needs to take her time gettng out of bed from now on.

She'll be talking to her cardiologist about the meds for her blood pressure (high, obviously) and heart (arrhythmia). Until then, hopefully there will be no repeat incident.

All in all, a rotten night that at least had a good ending. 


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