Hospitalized after a dangerous heart arrhythmia

Added: 2026-05-19

[00:00:00]This is so, so hard. They called from the from the hospital, my heart doctor, and said that they had seen on the monitor that I had a ventricular tachycardia that was um more serious one. It was for 18 seconds, more than 200 beats per minute.

[00:00:19]And then this um not good.

[00:00:22]And uh he wants me to go into the hospital to the emergency and then stay at the hospital to be monitored. And this was 2 weeks ago that I had it.

[00:00:34]But he wants me to go now in and then that they would yeah, talk about putting in an ICD.

[00:00:43]It's so confusing to know how to deal with the situation.

[00:00:48]Um and whether to eventually put in an ICD or not.

[00:00:54]I feel that often they try to rush it very much from the hospital and I want to have the time to really think through and pray through and I understand that they want to do what they I think is best, of course, uh from their world view.

[00:01:12]But it's very hard when we are not sharing world view and I know they don't have the perspective of that my life is in God's hands and I find it's just hard to know where is the balance. I want to be responsible and I want to have faith. I'm praying for it and saying how to do or when to go in.

[00:01:33]Yeah.

[00:01:34]That's where we are at now.

[00:01:37]I have to say this feels so weird to pack for going into the hospital.

[00:01:46]Cuz they really want me to still go in.

[00:01:49]I pushed it a week cuz I it didn't fit to go in at that moment. And since it was 2 and 1/2 weeks since I had the arrhythmia and it would cause way too much stress at that moment. And my mom's parents were going to visit and with all that like I was praying so much to know should we really go in or is it okay to push push it a week so I have more time to just seek God in in it all before the they come and like say from the hospital what they think I should do or not.

[00:02:22]Uh so yeah.

[00:02:26]I stayed a week and that was really good. It's been such a blessing this week.

[00:02:31]But now they want want me to go in.

[00:02:35]And yeah, I'm packing for being in there. I don't know how long.

[00:02:42]A week? Two weeks? I have no idea.

[00:02:46]And I think it's so so boring and I don't like it at all.

[00:02:50]>> [snorts] >> I also have a lot of food with me so it feels a bit embarrassing to come in with so many bags and things but the thing is I don't know if they can make food for me with all the allergies.

[00:03:10]And then now I'm being pregnant I certainly don't want to be without food because it's like oh okay I need to eat something I'm so super nauseous I need something quick.

[00:03:20]So um Lots then not having eaten this but seems to have led to your arrhythmia. Yeah, exactly. It was when I had not eaten.

[00:03:30]So yeah, it it feels like an important part to have enough to eat.

[00:03:35]Ellie and I he's going to go to a birthday party so he's been wrap wrapping a present here.

[00:03:42]So when we go to the ER we will first um yeah. Drop him off at the party.

[00:03:49]>> Yeah, at the birthday party.

[00:03:51]Hello. So cute.

[00:03:56]Good night. It's late. They go brother.

[00:03:59]Come on Elias.

[00:04:05]This is Jim.

[00:04:09]I am here at the hospital.

[00:04:12]And now starts the checking at the emergency.

[00:04:37]>> [laughter] >> A lot of people have been in here.

[00:04:42]Doing all kinds of Yeah, that's Now I'm here by myself.

[00:04:56]And now they were just in with um two doctors and talked a bit about the situation and oh it's so hard every time because it's like with every doctor that talks about it is it's like you get reminded about that they really think it's serious. Like I don't feel like I'm dead deadly sick.

[00:05:18]But that's also the tricky part with heart arrhythmias because it's like most people they don't know that they have it.

[00:05:24]And then suddenly they are dead. They don't feel sick per se.

[00:05:28]Of course I can feel it if I exercise or like that I have more irregular heartbeat and so but with specifically these dangerous arrhythmias yeah you you don't know it most of the time so I feel also that okay I'm blessed to know about it um It's just very very hard to know what to what to do with it because they are going to want to talk about putting in an ICD, and I don't know yet what I'm Yeah, what I'm thinking about that, what I want with that. I have my I can't talk.

[00:06:06]I have my hesitations for different reasons that I probably go into more later, but Yeah, still working on my burger.

[00:06:14]I think I've been eating it for like an hour.

[00:06:18]I've come halfway. It's good.

[00:06:21]And the last weeks, my full-time job has been to try to eat and get something in me.

[00:06:27]And with the pregnancy, uh I hope it gets better.

[00:06:40]Time to sleep. Oh, so tired.

[00:06:46]Oh, wow, what a long night.

[00:06:50]I've been waking up so many times and just twisting, turning, and I And at some point, I woke up thinking that oh, now it must be soon morning, so I can go up. Uh And that was like 4:00 or something.

[00:07:10]No, it's still a long left.

[00:07:13]>> [gasps] >> At least the like sheets, they were soft, so I've been laying, snuggling with my feet all night on [laughter] the sheets.

[00:07:28]Now I've been moved.

[00:07:30]Another view.

[00:07:32]I've been so nauseous this whole morning.

[00:07:36]Taking me like 2 and 1/2 hours to eat just a little bit of I'm like exhausted, exhausted.

[00:07:48]So, anyways, not very much difference me laying in the sofa at home or just laying here in the bed.

[00:07:54]Except I miss my boys.

[00:07:56]But then a friend will come and visit now, so that's nice.

[00:08:02]Hey.

[00:08:03]Hey.

[00:08:05]You're going to listen to my heart.

[00:08:07]Okay.

[00:08:16]Here?

[00:08:21]Have you now put it on the belly? You don't hear the baby.

[00:08:24]>> Maybe.

[00:08:30]Yes.

[00:08:31]I actually do. Yeah, but it's me. No, no. It's And I'm going to go home.

[00:08:39]I'm discharged. I can leave.

[00:08:41]So, this is why I called so many times to try to figure out if it's really necessary that I go into like the emergency and then to uh to be uh hospitalized. Like, can I not come directly to the the main um hospital, like the specialist hospital?

[00:09:02]Like, it didn't make sense to us because it was 2 and 1/2 weeks after I had had the arrhythmia. Also, before we went in now, uh since we went in a bit later, I stayed home a week um before when my husband's parents came.

[00:09:15]Uh and I called and made sure to ask like, is it still needed that I come now? But yes, yes, yes, and they uh really wanted that.

[00:09:25]Uh but now it turns out that yeah, our reasoning made sense, and uh well, it is not necessary for me to stay here now, but I will have a time uh on Thursday at the Rikshospitalet where we talk about the whole ICD and the risks and everything that comes with it. And it was a bit funny, the nurse just had put in >> [laughter] >> the ventflon. Like she had just put it in and then the doctor came in and talked to me about the updated situation and how he had talked to the ones at the specialist hospital and like that I could go home.

[00:10:05]And the nurse, he looked at the the thing that I had put in and like "Oh, there we wasted that money."

[00:10:12]>> [laughter] >> But yeah, it has been so good to hear the doctor talk here and get to ask some of the questions at least and I mean, it is a really serious situation and it's also good to hear the doctor now like in the beginning they seem so like on like, "Oh, you should have this.

[00:10:31]You should do this." But then in the end after we have been talking and reasoning it makes sense to them. The reasonings that I'm having, it makes sense and in the end they often come and say like, "Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it is like this and this and this like what you said with that." And so Yeah, it it's just good to get it also to hear from them that it makes sense what I'm thinking what I'm feeling and so on and he eventually also said that together with the uh my doctor at the specialist hospital they said that like yeah, they they don't want to put in the ICD if it's not something that I really really want because it does come with a lot of risks. Does come with the risk of infection, the leads breaking off, shocks when you don't need it even if it's uh not so many, it still is a risk.

[00:11:23]So, it's um Yeah, it's something that you then have for life. So, it would be that I would need have exchange which is new surgery at different times. So, it comes with a lot. It's not just to put in. Many people that I talked to about this, for them it's just like, of course you put it in. Of course you should have put it in. But it's not that black and white.

[00:11:48]It comes with a whole lot more to it.

[00:11:51]So, it's just good to get that also confirmed from the doctor.

[00:11:55]Yeah, they understand that perspective to it. But I have a very hard decision ahead of me.

[00:12:03]And they acknowledge that yes, this is very hard and no one can say how it will go in either or of the cases because it has it's risky with yeah, both situations.

[00:12:15]And no one can say, do I continue to live with this arrhythmia and it goes well for quite some time or do I die tomorrow? And both could happen, but what is known is that I have this arrhythmia and it is dangerous and the risk for me is much higher than for yeah, general population to just die suddenly from from the arrhythmia and yeah, as I get older, my risk of dying with this is getting higher and higher.

[00:12:46]So, it is something to seriously think about and yeah, pray for us. I already do.

[00:12:53]Um, but I do think it's really good when I we go into the hospital and get to ask all my questions about it and really evaluate and yeah, I actually don't know what I will end up on.

[00:13:07]To to take it or not. I don't know. As it is.

[00:13:12]Yeah, then that was this stay.

[00:13:17]Uh, here's my little doctor.

[00:13:21]>> [laughter] >> I'm going to find something to play with.

[00:13:25]Mom.

[00:13:25]This is what doctors do in their free time.

[00:13:28]>> [laughter] >> Oh.

[00:13:31]Well, well, I'm very thankful for all the support I've been shown from my sweet, sweet church family. So many people that have cared for me and yes, reached out and can we buy something?

[00:13:41]Can we do something? Should we come by with food?

[00:13:45]It's very sweet. I feel so loved. I feel so yeah, cared for and it's really one of the most beautiful things with having a church family. You are like a big family and you have so so much support around you and it's a really beautiful.

[00:14:04]It really shows yeah, what God created us for like loving each other.

[00:14:11]Yeah.

[00:14:12]Are you ready to go home?

[00:14:14]Are you?

[00:14:16]Well, I still I still have I need to get dressed and I still have this thing connected to me. I guess you can take that off, right?

[00:14:24]What did they do? They I guess I can probably take it off, but I'll call them in.

[00:14:29]Say that we are leaving.

[00:14:32]Yay.

[00:14:34]All right.