1. One year anniversary of the death of my husband’s mama.
2. Husband passed out from coughing while driving home from a nice dinner.
3. Car accident. Hit a tree. I grabbed the wheel once seeing tree in my direct path and managed to divert damage.
4. Twisted my ankle. Have NO IDEA how I wasn’t more injured.
5. Spent 7 hours at the ER with Husband who had EKG, Cat-Scan, Chest X-Ray, Breathing Treatments, Blood/Urine Work.
6. All results came back clear, no reason he should be passing out, just viral bronchitis. Got home around 1am.
7. Still worried there’s something wrong…although he hasn’t passed out since. This is WEEK #5 for him.
8. Can’t EVEN begin to imagine what could have been…all the what if’s…Never been in accident before.
9. Beating myself up, he shouldn’t have been driving in the first place. Bad wife.
10. Not myself. Scared. Need to get healthy, refuse to bring kids into a parent-less world.
11. Wake up call. Loud and clear.
12. Enter SparkPeople.
yeah i would say that is rough….sometimes if ur coughing hard enough you cant catch your breath…which i could imagine might make you pass out from lack of oxygen, rare but im sure it happens. that def ranks up there with my almost dying from blood clots last august. good luck getting healthy and with everything else. i hope it was just a bizarre occurance.
These types of things are always scary…it happened a bunch of times in the last 2 weeks which was the terrifying part. I thought for sure there was something more wrong, which is why they did all those tests at the ER.
holy shamoly Jen! I’ve never heard of such a thing – “cough apnea”… When does he get to come home!?
He’s home, just spent Sunday at the ER that’s all. Lots of rest…
cough syncope is scary but it is fairly common. does he have asthma?
Not really, but he was given an inhaler a month ago and uses it.
I hesitate to say this, but the last few months since his *retirement* he has been smoking his pipe (legal smoking that is…) a whole lot…which the doctors reminded him, it can prolong his illness.
Spark is good stuff. I lost close to 50 lbs using it a few years back. Now I like to use the Livestrong / Daily Plate site when I want to pay attention to what I’m eating, since I like to do a lot of sporty things and it takes your calories burned into account a little better than Sparkpeople does. Good luck to you both! It’s so easy to use food for every emotion – happy, celebration, mad, sad, bored – and then it can be so tough to get it under control, but it looks like you guys are well motivated. Get well Chuck!!!