I woke up to a really nice and cool morning and so decided to straighten up my second floor porch area off of my bedroom. I have a futon on that porch and I like to sleep outside when the weather is between freezing and 70 degrees, so I have an afghan, a comforter and a couple of German guard sleeping bags on the futon for when it gets chilly.
Anyway, it has been too hot and humid to be sleeping outside for a while so I wanted to air out the bedding items in case I wanted to sleep out last night. I had been down all week with a nasty flu and am just getting over the chest cold portion, so I figured sleeping outside could be a good thing. While moving the afghan to the rail, I felt a pain in my left hand and realize I have distubed a bees nest. No biggy. I went back in, mixed up a brew of soap detergent (thanks to another thread) and Sevin concentrate and took care of my little nemesis's.
Feeling ok for thre first day in a week due to the flu, I then went out cut up some branches and brush I had cut out of a tree last week. After swining the machete and cutting larger branches with a chain saw, I was getting pretty winded.
That't when I decided to come in for a coffee break and harass some of the people here for a while. The more I sat though, the more my chest started hurting. It became a constant, very uncomfortable pain pretty quickly.
Now here's my delema; a person like myself with heart disease should never ignore chest pain. However, I already had some chest discomfort from the hacking flu and I had just been stung by a bee. Over recent years I have not done well with insect bites and toxins on plants. So, do I worry about the pain or dismiss it as being a culmination of physical stress on top of a chest cold with an added dose of bee venom?
Around five o;clock I decided to test out the physical aspect and went back out to load up the wood and debris I had chopped up into a wheel barrel. Well, that about did me in. So, back on the sofa with the chest pain even a little more intense then it had already been all day.
It has been months since I have done a shot of nitro, the last time being over an incident where I restrained from going off physically on the new Divisional V.P. at a dealer meeting when I was with Goodman. Taking nitro produces a major headache for me, so I avoid it. Anyway, I do a shot of nitro and the pain eases back to what it had been all day.
My wife Lisa had been out all day and when she got home around 10:30 pm I was in pretty bad shape. I had to tell her what was happening in case something dramatic happened. I did not want to have to go to a hospital on a Saturday night when all of the weekend dregs were there.
Lisa is buggin me about going to the hospital and the pain was getting worse. I told her I was going to do another shot of nitro and take a shower. As it was, the pain was not going to let me sleep and I was getting scared. I did the nitro, took the shower and felt a little better. Drank a cup of tea and within an hour the pain had subsided in my chest, replaced by the nitro headache.
Anyway, didn't go to the hospital, assuming it was a combo of chest congestion and bee sting reaction and am feeling pretty decent this morning.
Just thought I'd boor you all with my wild weekend adventure
Anyway, it has been too hot and humid to be sleeping outside for a while so I wanted to air out the bedding items in case I wanted to sleep out last night. I had been down all week with a nasty flu and am just getting over the chest cold portion, so I figured sleeping outside could be a good thing. While moving the afghan to the rail, I felt a pain in my left hand and realize I have distubed a bees nest. No biggy. I went back in, mixed up a brew of soap detergent (thanks to another thread) and Sevin concentrate and took care of my little nemesis's.
Feeling ok for thre first day in a week due to the flu, I then went out cut up some branches and brush I had cut out of a tree last week. After swining the machete and cutting larger branches with a chain saw, I was getting pretty winded.
That't when I decided to come in for a coffee break and harass some of the people here for a while. The more I sat though, the more my chest started hurting. It became a constant, very uncomfortable pain pretty quickly.
Now here's my delema; a person like myself with heart disease should never ignore chest pain. However, I already had some chest discomfort from the hacking flu and I had just been stung by a bee. Over recent years I have not done well with insect bites and toxins on plants. So, do I worry about the pain or dismiss it as being a culmination of physical stress on top of a chest cold with an added dose of bee venom?
Around five o;clock I decided to test out the physical aspect and went back out to load up the wood and debris I had chopped up into a wheel barrel. Well, that about did me in. So, back on the sofa with the chest pain even a little more intense then it had already been all day.
It has been months since I have done a shot of nitro, the last time being over an incident where I restrained from going off physically on the new Divisional V.P. at a dealer meeting when I was with Goodman. Taking nitro produces a major headache for me, so I avoid it. Anyway, I do a shot of nitro and the pain eases back to what it had been all day.
My wife Lisa had been out all day and when she got home around 10:30 pm I was in pretty bad shape. I had to tell her what was happening in case something dramatic happened. I did not want to have to go to a hospital on a Saturday night when all of the weekend dregs were there.
Lisa is buggin me about going to the hospital and the pain was getting worse. I told her I was going to do another shot of nitro and take a shower. As it was, the pain was not going to let me sleep and I was getting scared. I did the nitro, took the shower and felt a little better. Drank a cup of tea and within an hour the pain had subsided in my chest, replaced by the nitro headache.
Anyway, didn't go to the hospital, assuming it was a combo of chest congestion and bee sting reaction and am feeling pretty decent this morning.
Just thought I'd boor you all with my wild weekend adventure
