This is an email I just sent to friend about my ER visit last night:

FIVE HOURS IN THE ER just to tell me my EKG was not irregular, my electrolytes are fine, and I am not pregnant. Almost two weeks of having this heart fluttering feeling, really badly at night, then I get in front of a doctor and BAM--nothing.

The whole time I was there I didn't have so much as a teeny tiny heart hiccup. Nada. What I did have while I was there was the most painful needle stick I've ever had. The IV inserted to take blood/give drugs made my arm ache all night. It didn't give me a cheery disposition either.

What this child doctor did say (damn, he looked young, or maybe I feel really old) is that I've probably become sensitive to one of the decongestants in my OTC sinus medication that I take from time to time. I just so happened to have taken a lot of it the last 4-6 weeks with my allergies flaring up SO badly. That's it, that's all he said. Switch allergy medication.

He also said that what I describe won't kill me in my sleep. It'll just feel really bizarre. Whew. After I got the IV out, got back home, got into bed with no strange heart fluttering, I realized how relieving it was to hear that it's really nothing serious.

I have an 8 month old. I can't kick the bucket just yet.