I'm back after a 3 day, 3 night forced hiatus. I was sitting here at the computer Monday evening about 5pm and got real dizzy, then blacked out and started convulsing. The whole episode lasted about 10 seconds, and it took awhile to figure out just what had happened, and I waited about an hour and it happened again. this time I told the wife to get me up to urgent care. It happened again on the way there, and several times while checking in and being seen by the staff, and doctor. They put me on the EKG machine and called for an ambulance. Once I left there and was admitted to the ER it didn't happen again until later in the day on Tuesday, and a few more times during that day, and Wednesday. During my stay there I had a cat scan on my head, and lungs, then an ex ray of my chest and lungs, an angiogram on all the main arteries from my heart, and up
thru the neck. What it finally came down to was the bottom half of my heart was skipping a beat and not getting blood to the brain. So last nite they installed a pacemaker, and said problem solved. Man that was some scary stuff going on there.
Fortunately, that was the only thing they found wrong, and fortunately that after 55+ years of smoking, and 7 years of
vaping, everything else is working as it should. I think I'm lucky.
Now I just gotta catch up on my sleep. Not one decent night's sleep in the last
three nights. ZZzzz.