Something might be wrong with my heart. No, literally.
Last night was probably one of the few times I’ve ever felt, “sick”? My wording’s so particular because I hardly ever get sick. I’ve only once taken a day off from work because I was “sick”, and that was only because the previous day I’d been gagging off of chemicals the manager decided to spray around the work area. So having a cold, or fighting the flu, not really things I’m used to as it were.
So imagine my surprise last night (at 4am) when I was jolted awake by a feeling of extreme nauseous. My body continued to go between chills and hot for the next 5 hours. I had a throbbing headache, congestion in my chest, shoulders, and base of my neck. And everything hurt. I was gonna just sleep it off, but wound up going to the local clinic to get a look over. Which is all the more ironic because I wound up dozing off as I waited for my appointment & felt 10 times better than I did prior to the extra sleep. The docs told me my blood sugar was low; more than likely due to me missing dinner last night. But they also heard some strange heart murmur; perhaps potential for heart damage. They can’t figure out what it is, so I have to go to the big hospital down town to have them look over me to make sure the murmur is just a murmur, and nothing else. Wouldn’t want anything to be wrong with Angel’s heart now.
So what’s wrong? Who knows? But $50 bucks says I’m too stressed for my little old heart to handle.
Update: The condition I have is called “Valvular Regurgitation”. I won’t know why it’s there, how bad it is, or how to fix it until July. Hope it doesn’t kill me before then, lol; not really….
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