Women of a Certain Age...

Ok...so I DO NOT want to admit it, but I am a a woman of a certain age.  So, the good news about being my age is that I actually have a clue...vs. just thinking a I do - : )  The bad news is that I cannot do all the things I used to not think 2x about in the past...for instance...Liz vs. the man chair -

This is the man chair...looks harmless enough right?  Well - NO not so much.  I am starting my business and I am trying to get my room in order.  So, the above "man chair" was in my way and I needed to move it.  My Mom (who has evern more a clue than I do)...told me not to move it, but did I listen?  NooooooooOOOOO.  I moved it about 5ft across the room.

So, 20min after I moved the chair - chest pains only on my left side - didn't think anything about it until it went down my left arm.  I called "ask a nurse", who told me I probly didn't need to call 911, but should get seen by my Dr.  My Dr. doesn't have the equipment to check out my heart, so I had to go to the emergency room.  OK...I figured I would go in, they would check me out and it would be nothing...but if I didn't - I would just worry about it the rest of the day. 

Well, I answered one question wrong and they ADMITTED ME - WTH????  3 blood tests, an EKG, echo picture of my heart and a lung blood clot test later (and 31hours later) I finally got outta there!  I was FREAKED out...but mostly sure it was not going to be a heart thing...  Don't get me wrong - I am soooo glad I got it checked, but those are 31hrs that I will never get back.  However, it is impossible to measure how many hours I gained - if it had been something and I didn't go get it checked - right?

I HIGHLY recommend that you get checked out if you have chest pains of any kind, but even more than that - I recommend that "women of a certain age" just leave those stupid man chairs alone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!