We have invited the kids over for supper for Sunday to have turkey – the one that I discovered when we cleared out the freezer on Canada Day! Mel referred to it as Christmas in July.
James had a soccer game – they lost 7-2 unfortunately – so I took him while Steve stayed home to take care of the food.
We have always put bacon on the turkey – no one knows why – we just always do it. It is a very well loved tradition and there is always a fight over who gets to eat more. Anyway, Steve says the bacon was ready to come off the turkey and James and I weren’t home yet from his game, so he decided to take the turkey out of the oven. This would have been fine with a 5 lb turkey but this one was 15 lbs plus stuffing, pan, etc – probably about 20 lbs. He hasn’t been doing any exercise since his heart attacks and he had been told to not lift anything heavier than about 5 lbs so this was not a good thing.
After supper, his shoulder and back were hurting and his chest was bothering him so he decided to take his nitro-glycerine. He took 2 shots, waited 15 minutes and took another shot but it didn’t help, so off the hospital we went.
After running a bunch of tests – heart reading and blood work, etc – they decided that he had chest wall pain and there was nothing serious to worry about. We were actually in and out of the hospital in under 4 hours which is pretty remarkable.
I hope he learns that there are some things that he needs to be more careful about – not lifting heavy things is certainly one of them.
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