Posted 10:16 AM by Bonnie

Tuesday started off like any other day. My husband and I were having a relaxing day at home. An hour or so after dinner he commented he felt a bit weird and his heart felt funny. I said let's go to the hospital, but typical man style he said let's wait and see. Later that evening his heart started racing (and it had nothing to do with me :-)) so off to the ER. When they put him on the heart monitor his heart rate was over 200!!! They quickly began administering thru IV drugs that were supposed to slow his heart rate. Didn't work. They then put a Cardivan? drip in his IV and were able to bring it to around 130/135 but couldn't bring it lower or stabilize him. the normal is a heart rate of 60. We spent the night in ER and the next morning they transferred him to ICU where he has been since. They did get his resting heart rate down and today put him on a portable unit and had him walk. They are doing another walking stress test and he may be able to come home today. But what a wake up call!! He has been saying over and over he needed to get serious about losing weight... maybe now he will?