Thursday, October 8, 2009

My brief history

Hi my name is Aaron. To give you an idea of where my thoughts come from you have to understand what I've been through the past couple of months and years. I'm 29 years old, and have had hypertension/high blood pressure since '05. In July of this year I went in to see my doctor for a normal check up. The next morning I receive a call from his partner saying get into the ER now. What happened was when they tested my blood; my potassium was at a 1.8 which means two things. First, when it gets to zero or around there your heart stops. Two and this is straight from the Head ER doctor that I should have been in a coma/unconscious state. Instead I was laughing, joking, and talking as if I was talking to a friend on the street. Anyway, long story short 5-6 days later, a MRI, CT, and a Cardiogram later I was told I had Conn's Syndrome/Disease. (Aka one of my adrenal glands is now a non cancerous tumor). My second adventure was about 2 months later when I was relaxing at home, when my heart out of the blue started racing. The short of this one is 911 was called, I was rushed to the hospital. They gave me a medicine which basically was a reset button for my heart and 3-4 days later I went home. The only thing they could figure was that a different hormone went out of whack temporarily. So now you know why or how my perspective might be a little bit weird or strange. Having been on Death's Door, I'm told gives you a unique point of view.