It was a long, difficult week last week. My wife Marilyn was not feeling good on Tuesday evening, so around 1:30 in the morning on Wednesday I took her to the hospital emergency room. They said that she had had a heart attack and was suffereing from congestive heart failure. The doctors were a little stumped when it came down to why she was having a heart attack. Neither Marilyn or I smoke or drink and we both eat pretty healthy, and we are only 29+ years old. So, they didn't have a clue why she had had the heart attack.

Wednesday was a day full of tests for Marilyn. She had a CAT Scan, X-Rays, an Ultrasound of her veins/arteries, all with no help as to the reason she was sick. When Marilyn was being transferred from her hospital bed to a gurney for her X-Rays she passed out. When she woke up there were 13 people towering over her, the crash cart was there, and they were getting the difibrulation paddles ready to zap her heart back to life. When she woke up just before the paddles were ready it scared her enough to wake her up very quickly. The doctors said she was pretty much dead for a minute and a half to two minutes.

Marilyn had one of those near-death (or in her case death) experiences. As a Christian it was very nice and peaceful for her. It was so nice that she didn't want to return. What a difference it makes when you know where you will spend eternity. I think if she had not been a Christian it would have scared Jesus right into her! She has a great testimony of what it feels like to be in God's presence!

Thursday Marilyn had a heart catherization (a dinky wire with a mini television camera on the end of it) inserted into her heart to show the doctors pictures of what her heart looks like. No blockage, no problems with arteries or veins, only some detection of some heart damage caused by the heart attack. But unfortunately, no information to help us determinwe why.

It all comes down to the doctors giving us their best guess. Marilyn had some surgery in June that they think may have triggered a blood clot that blocked one of her veins bringing blood to her heart. When they thinned her blood down to try to reduce her blood pressure in the emergency room it might have dissolved the blood clot. There is no trace of a clot now.

So, we had a very exciting week and weekend. Marilyn feels better each day that goes on, and is getting stronger as time goes by. Hopefully, we can get her back to her good young self sometime very soon.

1 Corinthians 15:40:
There are also heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is one, and the glory of the earthly is another.