Happy to be ALIVE

I am very happy to say I am still alive and kicking after the worst New Years eve ever. I was not feeling too good all day and at 9pm I decided to lay in bed and watch the fireworks on TV. I was only in my room 10 minutes when I began to feel so hot that I went into the ensuite to splash water on my face when I looked in the mirror my face was as red as a beetroot, I walked back into the bedroom and sat on the end of the bed and the next thing I woke up in the back of an ambulance on my way to hospital, lights and sirens blaring. My husband Paul does not know what made him come in to check on me but lucky he did because he found me on the bed unconcious and struggling to breathe. Apparently my chemotherapy has affected my heart and fluid had built up around it. I spent 4 days in CCU hooked up to monitors and having many tests until they could correct the problem. I now have to return for more tests on my heart in the next few weeks but the Dr says he is fairly confident I wont have long term problems and fortunately I have now finished chemotherapy so it should not happen again. Apparently it is not uncommon for chemotherapy patients to develope problems with their heart. I am grateful to the ambulance officers who worked on me for 1 hour at my house before taking me to hospital, we had 3 ambulances at our house and without them and the quick thinking of my family I would not be here to talk about it. . I have to say it was the most scary thing that I have ever been through and I have lost a lot of confidence, I hate being left home alone but each day it is getting a little easier. Someone was watching over me that day and it obviously was not my time to go.