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While my neck is now feeling much better, my wife scared me silly earlier today with a phone call during lunch telling me that she was having chest pains. After a bit of clarification, both she and I doubted it was a heart attack, but I headed home quickly to take her to the doctor.

Unfortunately my wife doesn’t have a regular doctor. So I had to look one up via our online insurance registry. Have you ever tried to find a doctor on Friday afternoon? Unless you’re bleeding out of your ears, they don’t make appointments. Thankfully the local urgent care center wasn’t too busy and they took our insurance.

I thought my wife was just having some muscle pain or indigestion. So I was really shocked when the doctor called me in to tell me he had detected an arrhythmia, a heart rhythm anomaly, while performing a routine electrocardiogram on my wife.

Now she’s wearing a portable electrocardiogram monitor overnight in order to record a painful cardiac episode. And if that isn’t bad enough, they’ll probably have to perform an echocardiogram if the monitor doesn’t find anything conclusive.

So this is why I can’t sleep tonight.