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Because of circumstances mostly beyond my control (neighbor selling house to move to east coast to be closer to elderly parents) and from me no longer begging family in the U.S. for some form of communication (email, text message, even a FB message) I have become very isolated. I can't talk to Wing and Alan about it, because that leads to them hovering and giving me no peace.
Am I lonely? Crushingly so, but outwardly you can't tell. I put on the socially correct face and attitude. I've actually gotten really good at it.
No scarring, not signs of any growths or other abnormalities. But the I had one helluva surprise a few weeks later.
I started having chest pains. Just a little, then it got worse and worse. I ended up taking an ambulance ride to the hospital emergency.
After many blood tests, ECG tracings, some really painful poking seriously painful prodding, a sublingual Nitro-glycerine spray and a crashing headache afterward, and 7 hours later, with blood draws showing no troponin, the diagnosis was GERD,aka Gastro-esophageal reflux disease, and it mimics a heart attack perfectly.
I have new medication to take (generic Aussie version of Prilosec) One a day. And a bottle of Gaviscon, but they didn't have any Mylanta. At least the Gaviscon liquid is an 'as needed'.
On a funny note: While I was in the corridor, on the ambulance stretcher. I kept seeing a doctor come in, look around, and leave. She did this 4 times. Then she asked Dean, the ambulance attendant, where is "Mrs Chung?" He pointed at me. She had been looking for a woman of Asian descent. I chuckled, because it never gets old.
I'm going to be ok. But that is how 2023 ended, and one of the many reason I saw 2023 sucked big time.
