Cardiac arrest [View all]

Yesterday my husband visited the heart doctor for the first time. He had an EKG last Tuesday and his doctor made the appointment for him. A few minutes after he saw the doctor as he was walking to the exit he passed out. He woke up to find several doctors and EMTs around him. He was taken by ambulance to the emergency, which was actually just two blocks away. Shortly after I got to the hospital, a doctor came in and told him that he experienced a cardiac arrest. Two cardiologists couldn’t detect a pulse for 45 seconds. They were performing CPR. He recently started meds to lower his blood pressure which hovers in the high 140/100 range. When I first saw him his BP was 196/118. At the hospital, after the doctor told him his heart stopped for 45 seconds, his blood pressure was 200/124. He’s having a test today and they are putting him on Beta blockers. We’ve been married for 51years. We are both 76. We have no family here as one is 3 hours away and one is 4 hours away. We do have some very close friends. I read only 10% of people who have cardiac arrest survive and one reason he is still here is that he didn’t make it out of the office to the truck, Thank God. I’m hoping he comes home today. We are just starting to absorb this event. I think we’re still in the “I can’t believe this happened “ frame of mind. Thanks for letting me vent.