Skipped a Heartbeat!!!
Google: It means you have had heart palpitations, best described as a feeling that your heart is beating too hard or too fast.
Has this ever happened to you? Must have, I guess!!!
It happened with me too. Oh! I remember that day so vividly and no it didn`t happen when I saw prince charming.
I can tell you that most of my adventures happen on dialysis days. It was a Thursday, perfectly normal day, reached my 7Med Dialysis Clinic after chanting “5 mins more Mum”. Got hooked up to my machine, I prefer sleeping during my dialysis because I have weird sleeping patterns.
So one hour passed and I told my Mum that “I want to eat chips, please get me some from downstairs” and I turned to change my position and suddenly I got the feeling that I have had been running a marathon.
I became breathless, it was as if there is an engine revving up inside me, and so I somehow managed to call the nearby technician. When they checked my BP my heartbeat was 220 and rising. In minutes I had the entire team and the doctor standing by my bed. They immediately stopped my dialysis.
I do not panic in these kind of situations because of two people, my pastor (she told me god is with you never be afraid) and Mr. Binu (he said if I panic things will get out of hand, raise my BP and scare the other patients around me). Doctor in the clinic was there with me the whole time trying to comfort me as I became restless over time and my heart rate was fluctuating from 80 to 200. The medicine which was given to me was not working and by then my Mum had come back, with the wrong flavour of chips.
I was then transferred to the Emergency Room (ER) and then panic started. After reaching the ER everything started to look like the scene of Grey`s Anatomy (my favourite show).
Code Blue was declared, the entire cardiac team stood surrounding me. In my mind my whole life flashed in front of my eyes, I prayed and asked for forgiveness for all my sins. I looked over and saw my mother thinking maybe be it was the last time I was seeing her because they had the crash cart with them they had kept it ready. They were looking for a vein to put a cannula in (it’s been 8 years and I still don’t like injections and needles). Then it happened, they put an injection to slow my heart rate and I was told, “Look at that screen magic will happen”. I was like what the fish this is not the time to show magic. Crying like a little baby because of the cannula, I looked over and saw as the injection entered. I felt cold and the screen showing 200 heartbeat went to 0.
I screamed, “I am feeling heavy on my heart”. Doctor said it’s ok now. And then the screen showed 30…50…80…90…100.
Whoooo!!! The team clapped & cheered, told me and my mother everything is fine but I will be kept in observation for few hours.
I was advised to visit the Cardiac Doctor tomorrow and if anything like this happens at home, then immediately rush to the E.R.
Around 8 P.M I was discharged and it started to rain cats and dogs. I don’t enjoy Delhi rains as it creates traffic jams and huge rivers of dirty water. We found a cab, got stuck in traffic and reached home by 1 A.M. When I reached home I thanked god that I was back and had a real cool story to tell everyone.