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A week's rest on the King's Highway - nearly choked to death

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Just got back after a week's R & R - this is probably the least we've done on a vacation. Visited family - saw our one sister-in-law, and also a niece and her husband. They were staying in a time-share the same place we were, and it was not scheduled. They live in Utah and we hadn't seen them in years and years. Had never met our nieces husband, and they are grand-parents. My husband didn't feel well, so we laid low, and then on Thursday I was taaking my plethora of medication, as one doctor put it, and when I got to the vitamin, which was split in half I popped both halves in my mouth at once. The one half went down my tracea and I choked, and kept on coughing. Wound up sliding down to the floor. The change of position must of helped the pill pop out. I kept on coughing and coughed up blood. My husband didn't know what to do. He didn't want to do the Heimleich, as I am on coumadin. When I calmed down, I phoned my pulm. doctor, and they said I was ok as long as there was no more blood.
I'm taking simvastatin (Zocor). - only 20 mgm. I had such pain in the muscles in the front of my thighs that I couldn't sleep, I stopped the medication. The pain was gone by the next evening. Guess I'll have to contact the cardiologist to let her know what I did. My heart rate has been up in the morning, so I went back up to the 100 mgm of metoprolol again. I seem to be handling it ok, as long as I drink enough water.
The combination of the heart problems and the sarcoid, along with COPD (lots of second-hand smoke - I never smoked), makes it difficult to balance medications. Even though they think the sarc caused some of the heart problems, they have not made a definitive diagnosis.
Spent some time during the week working on the message for tomorrow morning. Still have to finish it and also do the Church Bulletin. Our neices graduation party is tomorrow, and our grandson is performing a solo on his euphonium at his college concert. In a couple of weeks his twin will be home from Australia, but is going straight to camp to work for the summer. That means I still won't get to see him. Don't think I'll get to the concert either, because it's at night and I start back to work Monday morning.
I thank God for all of you, on each of the sites. You are an absolute inspiration. You are in my prayers. God bless! Hugs from Great-Gram.

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