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  • May. 29th, 2009 at 8:32 PM

On weds. received call that mom was being admitted to hospital. She was having "heart flutters" as she calls them. Local hospital gives meds to bring her BP down, then she had an erratic pulse swinging every where from 30 to slightly over 60 (isn't a pulse of 60 good for an 82 yr. old?). Local hospital finally gets that somewhat stable and transfers her to a larger regional hospital with heart drs. (including the one mom uses) on staff. Mom spends Weds, and Thurs. at the regional hospital, she show no signs of any problems there. When we talk with her. Dr. on Thurs. morning, he has no idea what happened since she was fine at the regional hospital. Regional hospital had asked the local hospital to sent all the data they had on mom's heart... local hospital cannot send it because THEY CANNOT FIND IT! I'm mad. Anything the dr. does to prevent this from happening again is just a guess at this point - she is 82 years old and on enough meds to kill a horse already. What we came away from this with is a heart monitor implanted in her chest to record such events as they happen for the next three years... this is not the first time mom has had the fluttering but it is the first time anyone caught any of it on record and THEY LOSE IT! God as my Witless, that hospital has got to at very least issue an apology...

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