OK Siblings...need your prayers and positive thoughts sent this way.
My best friend and her hubby were planning to join us in a "get away" weekend this coming Saturday... anywhere.. just to get away somewhere before cold weather arrives for real. Were still working out the plans, so I emailed her last night to see what the latest options were.
She informed me she had been home "sick" for most of the week. Now she is NOT the "sickly" type... like me, she is the perpetual energizer bunny.
Said she had been back and forth to the cardiologist all week...was having bigeminal and trigeminal PVCs. Hit her from out of the blue...never had any cardiac issues in the past. She's in her early to mid forties. Said they put her on cardiac meds BID and did the echogram,and all sorts of other tests... were following up. Said she was feeling pretty decent now and was going back to work this Monday.
I emailed her back and told her I'd like to stop by this AM and visit with her.. just got an email now saying she is on her way to the ER... was woken up out of her sleep with severe nausea, "heartburn", and pain in her left shoulder.. that her heart was skipping madly....she checked her BP and it was only 70/32 .
Now I'm not one to wallow in worry.. not my style. However, I am very concerned and need some hugs and warm thoughts here, guys.
She's my best friend...the one true friend I have here. It's not easy making friends when you're not a "local" in these parts. While everyone is nice and "friendly", you're still considered an "outsider". Ppl here already have solid friendships from childhood on, and it's difficult forming new friendships when you wern't born and raised in the area... add to that the age factor.. the older you get, the harder it is to form new and lasting friendships.
But Jayne and I hit it off right from the get-go. We're so much alike, it's amazing ! We even look alike ! (except she's blond, with a loose cury bob instead of a dark, straight bob). We're both live wires, love to laugh and be annoyingly silly and get ourselves into trouble any chance we get. Our hearts and passions are the same. In little over a year, we have become best buds.
It was she who took me under her wing when I was preparing for my big "make it or break it" clincal exams and offered me the opportunity to shadow her for about 6 weeks at her hospital on her medsurge unit... which I did. She was a great coach and supporter, and filled me with encouragement and confidence.
She was also to be my preceptor in the near future as I had applied to her hosp. to work some PRN there as soon as I receive my NC licence... hopefully this week. We were both so excited about having the opportunity to work together now and then !
My heart is heavy right now as I await more news. Don't want to go to the ER as I'm sure her hubby would like to be with her by himself.. and they have probably called their youngest dtr. who is in nursing school several hours down the road in NC.
Their other daughter is in Taiwan.. doing a teacher's exchange program there for a year. Jayne had just gotten her passport and all her rounds of injections to fly over there next month to visit her. She was soooo excited... Now perhaps not.
Sorry this is so long... it helps to write it all out.
