The Unexpected

“Mom, I went to the doctors today and I think I should tell you what they said.” I told my mother in a wary voice.

“Brandee is this really necessary? I am trying to sleep.” She responded very angerly.

“They think my hearts enlarged or that I have an abnormal heart beat and I might have diabetes and im scared mom, I am so scared.”

It all started off three weeks ago it was like any ordinary day; I got up for school and attended classes just like everyone else. I even had the ambition to go to work, but that’s when I knew something was wrong with me. I started to pass waters to all of my residents and I became very short of breath but I didn’t think too much into it and kept delivery waters. Then instantaneously a sharp pain ran right through my chest it felt like a bee stinging me. It happened multiple times in a minute, I sat down and tried to catch my breath so that I could make it to the nurses’ station and tell them I was going home. After I made it to the nurse I had her collect my vitals witch showed that everything was normal. Still not feeling certain that everything was completely alright with me I decided to call my mom and tell her everything that was going on.

I was rushed to the emergency and was given an EKG and had to keep a monitor on my heart. It’s hard to remember every single thing that happened during that period of time because I was in and out of consciousness. The cause, well we really didn’t know this until after a blood test was taken but I have signs that point to hypoglycemia, this is a beginning stage in people that usually have diabetes when they are older. I was sent home that night and was told to check up on my hypoglycemia and that was all I had to do because the blood tests show normal for everything else.

 

Which lead me to telling my mother that I might have an enlarged or abnormal heart beat.

I went back to my check up at the Coal Country Community Health Center the next week after I was in the emergency room and they were curious to what could be wrong with me. They ordered more blood tests which came back normal but I was given a monitor so that I can watch my blood sugar level throughout the day, this means that I have to poke my finger three times daily. But that’s not the beginning of the problem; I have to have an echocardiogram done this week to see if my heart is normal. If it’s not I will have to go through multiple medicines and maybe even surgery.

I don’t think that anything that is happening to me is really bad, I just think that it’s frightening because I don’t know what to expect on a day to day basis. The only thing that I can do right now is to keep my head up and remember that God never gives us too much to handle and life goes on.