Hello fellow bloggers!! This post is going to be a little different than any of my other posts.
Marydon of Blushing Rose Too asked me if I would share with you the symptoms and problems I had in 2005 when I had a heart attack. It is something most of us don't like to think about much less check out but many women who are having mild symptoms may not know they could be having the first signs of a heart attack. Let me begin my story:
For years before 2005 I had an annual checkup and my Dr. always said I was in great health but when I asked for my bloodwork papers for about 3 yrs. I noticed my cholesterol numbers were on the borderline of 200 and the risk factor was kind of high but she said "nothing to worry about, just cut back on greasy food." So I am thinking ok she knows what she is talking about. Then about 2-3 months before the HA I would sometimes get up out of my chair and just for a split second I would feel kind of dizzy and see kind of a white dot in my eye. But my Mom and whole family has that sometimes, so no worry. Also, sometimes my left hand would kind of go to sleep but I thought, well I just layed on it wrong or my watch is too tight. No worries. I have had a little elevated blood pressure and had been on BP meds for a few years just as a precaution, I was doing everything to be healthy. But I was tired all the time.
Well, on the evening of April 21, 2005, I saw a commercial about womens symptoms
of a heart attack, and I fell into the category of most of them, dizziness, shortness of breath, feeling of dread, extremities going to sleep, nothing that would make you believe you were having a heart attack, but got me to thinking about all the things that had been happening to me lately. I thought, okay tomorrow I am going to call my Dr. The next morning I went to work and called my Dr. for an appointment but she was out of town. I took my BP and it was very high, now I am getting worried. Mind you, I am having no chest pains, nothing like the classic tv heart attacks. Ok, on my lunch break I go to our hospital ER and ask them if they would check my BP because I am not feeling right. After waiting about 20 minutes they take it and say "Yes your BP is high but we cannot do anything without your Dr approval" my Dr is out of town!! And they send me on my merry way. Back to work I go. I am thinking, okay my Mom has a cardiologist, I will go there and see what she says, I have been there with Mom several times, I go there, they say, " you are not our patient, we can't see you, go to the ER." I just left there...............now I am getting mad. I go to my Dr's office and ask to see another Dr. and demand to have an EKG........finally Dr. McDreamy that looks like Tom Cruise gives me an EKG, and I am not caring whether I am having a heart attack or not he is so dreamy....... but anyway (LOL) he says "I know this is scary for you but you are in the middle of having a heart attack (while he is patting my knee and I am in love...) so I need you to DRIVE YOURSELF over to the hospital (which was only 3 blocks away) and I will call over there and have them admit you. So I do as he says, get to the hospital and they have me go to admitting and I sit there and wait for them to admit me. Meanwhile I call my husband and tell him what is going on and he is on his way to meet me. Finally I get to my room and am setting on the bed waiting for them to start doing something to stop this HA monster. After about 15-20 min. my husband goes to the counter and asks if someone is going to help me and they say "Oh, we thought she was a visitor". Then they start action........they assign my moms cardiologist to me, she comes in, I tell her I am allergic to iodine and steroids, and she says, "Well that is what we use to do the test I need to do (angiogram), so I just don't know what to do with you." I immediately said, "send me to OKC." They kept me at this hospital for the night to get me stabalized and took me by ambulance to OKC the next morning, to a Heart Hospital, they did an angiogram, it was a blood clot, it was dissolved by medication, I had no damage, due to my persistance and early detection of knowing my body and knowing something wasn't right. My Dr. McDreamy told me that if I had not been persistant in getting help and knowing my symptoms were not normal, I would have gone home that night and died, probably in my sleep. Since I saw the commercial about the symptoms which I was having and got care the next day (finally) I did not have heart damage and today I am healthy with no ill effects of the heart attack and I am more aware.
So ladies, the moral of my story (I know it was long) is, BE AWARE OF YOUR BODY SIGNALS, and pay attention when things just don't feel right and get them checked out. It may save your life. Dizziness, shortness of breath, tiredness, pain in left arm or jaw, and extremities going to sleep can all be symptoms women can get when they are having a heart attack. Spread the word.
XOXO
Ginger
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I am showing you some of last years pictures of things around my home. This was my dining table around Easter 2009, found the white teapot for $1.oo at a garage sale.
These are the scones I made at Easter. I will have to get permission from Monica who gave me this recipe to post it, if she lets me I will post it later. They are delicious.
Some of my dishes, I love to collect creamers and teapots and any dish with roses on it.
And this is my serving table in the tearoom.
Hope you enjoyed my pinks and be sure to stop by our hostess's blog at How Sweet the Sound and see what Beverly is up to and what all the other participating bloggers are showing this Pink Saturday. 
I am showing you some of last years pictures of things around my home. This was my dining table around Easter 2009, found the white teapot for $1.oo at a garage sale.
These are the scones I made at Easter. I will have to get permission from Monica who gave me this recipe to post it, if she lets me I will post it later. They are delicious.
Some of my dishes, I love to collect creamers and teapots and any dish with roses on it.
And this is my serving table in the tearoom.
Hope you enjoyed my pinks and be sure to stop by our hostess's blog at How Sweet the Sound and see what Beverly is up to and what all the other participating bloggers are showing this Pink Saturday. 
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