Woke up in the hospital following a heart attack. I needed a stent, but they had to get me to a different hospital for the surgery and there was a delay due to a snow and ice storm.
6 AM, I wake up and am fiddling with my phone, nurse comes in the room.
"Were you asleep about an hour ago?"
"Yeah, I just woke up, why?"
"Your heart stopped for 8 seconds."
"Um... 'thank you'? I don't know what the correct response is to 'your heart stopped for 8 seconds.' Shouldn't the alarms have gone off? I don't remember hearing anything..."
"Oh, no, the alarms go off at the nurses station."
So now I have an implant monitoring for when my heart stops again. Docs say they aren't worried if it happens when I'm asleep, it's if I'm awake that worrie them.
"Were you asleep about an hour ago?"
"Yeah, I just woke up, why?"
"Your heart stopped for 8 seconds."
I love the implication that they didn't check on you, just saw the alarm turn off and thought 'That'll do!' 😳😂
I hope you're doing ok now, or at least as ok as you can 🙂
It's been tough, that was my 2nd, possibly 3rd. There's evidence I might have had a 3rd that had no symptoms. But hey, as long as I still wake up in the morning. 😉
Got a buddy that has a pacemaker because his heart stopped a of seconds while he was standing up. He fell and hit his head pretty badly, was in a coma for weeks etc. So that's why they are concerned with short pauses when you are awake ;) thats not as much concern when you are asleep as this is happening not frequently and its more akin to sleep apnea.
So you're not messing about then? 🙈😂
Honestly though, that's the best attitude to have 🙂