Wow, that was fast...

And winter came back! The weekend was cold and windy and it's been miserable and snowy and rainy all week. Kind of like me! lol

I had a health scare yesterday. Tuesday evening I started getting mild pains on the left side of my chest. I've had this before, and it's just muscle spasms. But it didn't go away. By noon on Wednesday I decided to pop into a walk-in clinic and get it checked. They sent me to the emergency department of the nearest hospital (they call it A&E here, Accident & Emergency) for an EKG, given that it was in the region of where my heart is located. I was getting a bit worried as I have a lot of heart disease in my family history.

It's amazing how they will fast-track you through the system when you complain of chest pain on the left side! I was hustled in, put on a bed, blood pressure cuff on, fingertip pulse thingy on and hooked up to the EKG! Long story short, after 4 hours, an EKG, multiple blood pressures taken and a chest x-ray, they decided I was disgustingly healthy and it was just protracted muscle spasms and send me away with some ibuprofen. Whew!

It still hurts, but they said it might take weeks to go away and I just have to live on painkillers. Sigh. I hate taking painkillers, but I hate pain even worse! I think it's from stress - we're in a busy time and there's a lot of tension in the office.

I had the twins with me last weekend - it was pretty low key since I was tired. But we had fun, doing crafts and shopping. A friend of mine from Calgary, Allison, came to London on business and stayed with us on Saturday night. She is in Edinburgh this week, back tonight and hanging with me for the weekend. We're going to see Avenue Q on Friday night and then out to the Embassy afterwards for dinner and maybe a bit of dancing in the club. Embassy is well-known as a hangout for the famous, rich and/or beautiful.

Other than that, we don't have tons of plans. I want to take it easy because I really think I need to destress somehow, and I can't do anything too physical as it makes my chest hurt.

We didn't do anything wonderful on St. Paddy's day this year, but here is a picture of me last year on St. Paddy's day. I was in Banff with my friend Alanna for it. We had SO much fun!