Reflections by AquaLady

July 28 / Wed.

Jim was taken to the emergency room by ambulance this evening. He was in route to pick up Mike at work when he felt his heart beating irregularly. This happened to him before & the doctor told him to go right to the doctor's office which is what he decided to do. He called me on his cell phone & asked me to pick up Mike.

By the time I got home, there was a message on our answering machine to telephone the doctor's office. I called their number but got the answering machine instead. I told the lady that I absolutely needed to get through to the office so she made the connection. The nurse told me that Jim had been taken to the the Evangelical Hospital's Emergency Room by ambulance & that the doctor was trying to call me. I wrote down the information & hung up. Shortly the doctor phoned & told me pretty much the same thing.

Mike was home so I told him what was happening & got in the car & drove to Lewisburg. I also told Mike to let the folks down at Pioneer Days know that I wouldn't be coming down to work at the Funnel Cake stand. When I arrived at the reception desk & asked to see Jim, the nurse told me that he was not there. For a minute I wondered if I had the wrong hospital. She told me to wait...that maybe I beat the emergency vehicle there. I waited for about 15-20 minutes & still no sign of an emergency van so I got up to go to the rest room & the nurse said that she would check into the matter again.

When I came back to the desk, she told me that they had found Jim & she took me back to the emergency area. Jim was laying there hooked up to various machines that were checking his heart & pulse. I could tell that he was doing fine because he told me to sit down & read my book (in other words, stop asking so many questions & just shut up...).

I stayed there with him while they wheeled him away for X-rays & then we waited some more. Finally, a doctor appeared & gave us the scoop. They gave Jim the choice of staying overnight so they could monitor his heart OR send him home provided that he sees his family doctor the very next day. Jim chose the second option.

I drove him to Middleburg to get his truck which he left parked at the doctor's office & then he followed me home to Kreamer.