Saturday I had asked my mom if she wanted to go to the Rod Works clearance center in Layton to see what cool stuff they had there. I just wanted to look and try to get some ideas for my living room and family room. She and my dad just remodeled their bedroom and she was looking for stuff for that room. So we headed out at around 11:30 to go see what we could find. We hadn't been there for more than 20 minutes and my mom gets a call on her cell phone. I wasn't sure who she was talking to but from the sounds of the conversation I thought for sure it was Erin and that she was going to the hospital to have the baby. I was completely shocked to find out that it was my dad on the phone. When I asked my mom why he was going to the hospital she said that he thought that he was having a heart attack.
I know not to question these things with my dad, he has been the safety and first aid trainer when he worked at Craythorn and went through the trainings every year with the guys on his crew. Not only would they cover what to do to give CPR and first aid to injured people but they also covered what to look for if someone is having a heart attack. He knew that since he was having pressure in his chest, dizziness and loos of circulation in his arms that there was something going on.
Needless to say my mom and I ended our shopping trip and went to meet him at the hospital. He decided that he should not drive himself so he asked Jordan to bring him up since she was there and it would take us too long to get all the way home and drive right back up to the same area we were already at. The one funny thing about this whole thing was watching my dad unfold himself from Jordans little sports car. My dad is a tall guy, Jordans car is a little car, still not sure how he fit himself in there!
They took him into the ER to do a series of tests and found that he was having very irregular heart beats for about 15 minutes every hour or so. When he was having these irregular heart beats he couldn't feel the difference. So the doctor decided to keep him overnight so that they could do a full series of tests. They did blood work, EKG, ultrasound and a CAT scan, then after they got the results from those back they did a stress test. Sunday they let him know that they had one more test to do and kept him for another night so that they could do an angiogram. When they did the angiogram they found 2 spots that were 10 percent blocked. Thank goodness that it wasn't more! So there will be some lifestyle changes that he will be making as well as regular visits to the cardiologist over the next couple months.
I am really thankful that they were able to find these things now while they are still relatively small and can be fixed without having to do anything major.
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