Our Scare

Well, Thursday, (March 19, 2009), I was at school as usual. I decided to take my last hour class outside because let's face it we all have spring fever and test anxiety... it was time to take a break and go outside to do our lesson. So, I took my class outside to the basketball court to review clockwise, counterclockwise and angles! I did nothing but call out what I wanted them to show me with their partner. We stayed out 10 minutes NO MORE!! I come back inside to my classroom and I sat at the back table to call out flashcards for my students to play the SQUAT that they love so much! While I was looking at the flashcard, I felt like my heart stopped and I had trouble focusing on the flashcard. One of my students noticed and ran over to see if I was ok. I was! Then it was time to take them to the buses. I drop them off and on the way I started feeling weird. I walk into the building and go to the lounge and do my normal routine. I see Leslie my best friend and co-worker (who is RN) and I told her I didn't feel well. She said that my neck was red. And if anyone who knows me knows that I am ALWAYS red. I get red when I am nervous, upset, whatever... but it usually goes away quickly. They checked my pulse adn it was racing.. so they took me to the emergency room. In my heart I knew that I just had a panic attack.. but now that I am pregnant, I was worried that it could have been something else. They checked all of my vitals...blood pressure, fever, everything like that and it was PERFECT! So, they brought me back to the room and did blood work, urine test, and an EKG! The doctor said that everything was beautiful!!! He never really said what was wrong, but I read my discharge papers and it said that I had a panic attack. I told them that I have had them in the past and so he said that I had one. So, thankfully that is all that it was. However, I was upset that he did not check the baby.. He said that since I was only 18 weeks, if there was something wrong with the baby, there was nothing that he could do anyway. Wasn't there a nicer way to say that? Anyway, I still feel the baby and everything is ok! I called my doctor and everything is ok. I just have to let them know if it happens again. I am ok and so is the baby who we are referring to as AC because those are the first initials of the two names that we have picked out! Hope that you guys have a blessed day!