In April 2005 I got some chest pains over a period of weeks that suddenly got bad... looked at NHS Direct and followed a flow chart which said call an ambulance your having a heart attack :shock:
Thought stuff that and rang them... operator put the Nurse on straight away who told me I should have an Ambulance as it wasn't looking too good and was anyone else in the house... half way through the call Mrs D came home so she ran me down to the GP's as a compromise...... who I explained my symptoms too... who called an ambulance :shock: ... First responder came, plugged me in to a gizmo having shaved my chest :shock: . Then the Ambi staff arrived and wanted to wheel me in an Ambi. I told them I would walk so as not to send the Kids in to shock who were outside in the Car with Mrs D. Dr went and explained the crack.
Whisked off for a 3 hour prod, poke, probe and once over then told I could go home... thing was after all that excitement I wasn't convinced I was safe to go home. :? Spent the next day home alone wondering if I should sit on the door step all day incase owt did happen at least a passer by may see me collapsed ... then burgle the house :twisted:
Anyway.. much research later I diagnosed it myself as the Hosp never got to the bottom of it and passed it off after all the tests as muscular ,Costacondritis or Tietze's syndrome is my best diagnosis.
Don't mind sharing that I felt very concerned in the back of the Ambi when they started pumping me full of stuff to keep the paperwork down on the short trip
The internet is a wonderful thing but sometimes we still need to jump through hoops and sh@t our pants all the same.
Hope you get sorted with less stress!
That said... Staffordshire Ambulance Service, The Doctors and all the Staff at the Medical Assesment unit were fantastic and I felt a right berk amoungst people in obvious genuine need. :oops:
