Last night's scare...

We need to just buy some stock in Frye and Catawba Memorial Hospital because my family has been there enough in the past month to pay for a few of the employees salaries! Yesterday evening I took Ashlyn and Brennan over to my Mammaw Sherrill's to visit her and Lewis. Unfortunately Lewis is having to go to a nursing home today. He is showing early signs of alzheimer's, and Mammaw just can't take care of him all on her own. It was such a hard decision, but it simply had to be done. I truly hate it for him! He is one of the kindest, most sincere people that I know! It breaks my heart to think of him in a nursing home! Well I ALWAYS carry my phone on me. For some reason while I was at Mammaw's I decided to leave it in the car. Once I got back in the car I had 7 missed calls in an hours time. This is the order they came in......Britt, Britt, Joyce (Britt's mom), Joyce, Joyce, Joyce, Kerry (Britt's sister). I KNEW something was wrong. I had 3 voicemail also, so I called and checked them. Joyce's message said for me to call her right away and Kerry's message said that she knew that I was up at the hospital, but for me to call her when I got her voicemail and got a chance. I wasn't at the hospital and I had NO CLUE what was going on! I called Joyce right away and she was up at the hospital with Britt. He was having chest pains and numbness in his left arm. GOLLY PETE!!!! First Ashlyn, then my dad, now Britt! I rushed up to the hospital as fast as I could. The EKG came back normal.........No heart attack! Praise GOD! They ran a few more tests and did some x-rays on his lungs. All of that came back ok as well. The ER doctor seems to think that he's pulled a muscle in his ribs. I, being Dr. Mindy, think that he's just stressed out and having symptoms of panic attacks. Of course he didn't bring any of this to the doctor's attention though! Why are men so stubborn? Anyway, he was sent home last night and seems to be doing fine. He's still having the chest pain, but so far he hasn't had anymore of the tingling in his arm. Please keep him in your prayers. This has been one HELL of a month! Let's hope that this is the last of it! My nerves are COMPLETELY SHOT!!!!