Old and Experienced

This morning we responded to a 92 year old lady with some chest pain. That is about as routine of a call as you can get. City-wide, we probably responded to a similar call about five to ten times a day, every day of the year.

As we arrived, we found a little old lady sitting in bed, really not looking too bad considering that she was born during WWI, the Russian Revolution, and the same year as Ernest Borgnine. When asked what the problem was, she stated, "Well, my chest feels heavy since I had a heart attack on Sunday (this being Tuesday)". This of course lead to questions about what the doctors said about the heart attack and if this was her first one, etc. She was certain that she had never really had heart trouble before, but she was just as certain that her old ticker was not ticking normally. As we focused on how she was treating her heart attack, she finally gave us the whole truth. Apparently, at 92 years old you learn some things because she then stated, "I did not go to the doctor or the hospital, but I had a heart attack...I KNOW how they feel!"