Just as I was starting to pick up speed here I ended up in the hospital for 4 days. I went in because of severe chest pain, my heart rate had dropped to 35bpm. The local hospital could not figure out what was going on and could not get it above 40bpm. After 12 hours of still being in pain they threw an external pacemaker on me and transfered me by ambulance to the nearest hospital that specializes in heart problems.
The new hospital ran more tests than any human needs and said "You have all of the symptoms of a heart attack but your blood work is not showing the enzymes associated with a heart attack." They tried atropine, that worked for a few minutes getting my heart up to 52bpm then it dropped back to the 35 - 40 bpm range. They changed tactics and said, lets try getting you out of pain and see if that helps. So after being hooked up to multiple machines to monitor every part of me they gave me a dose of morphine through IV. As the pain faded my heart started to stabilize but was still not where it should have been. The next day they gave me a a shot of Valium and things started to come back to normal. Their final diagnosis was that I had been in a severe panic attack for 3+ days. Maybe TMI but just wanted to let everyone know why I went silent all of a sudden. --Bryan
