We visited a friend of ours yesterday who's recovering from quadruple bypass heart surgery. This friend suffered a heart attack at 46 years old-not exactly someone you'd expect to keel over in a coffee shop on a Friday morning before work.
"How'd you find out?" I asked the wife.
"That's a long story," she said.
Here's the condensed version of what happened. Wife had taken her mother to a doctor appointment at 9 a.m. Wife is one of those polite people who actually adhered to the sign that said TURN OFF YOUR CELL PHONES WHILE IN THE WAITING ROOM.
So wife was blissfully unaware that hubby's heart had stopped and the firemen had brought him back before rushing him to the hospital. In fact, wife and her mother sat in the waiting room for a long time and finally were seen and scheduling another appointment at 10:30 a.m. That's when wife turned on her phone and answered an unfamiliar number.
"Your husband had a medical situation and is in the hospital," the caller from the police department said.
"I'll be right there," wife said. She never even thought to ask what had happened.
She later found out that the paramedics had called the house, her office and her cell phone numerous times. Which begs the question: how did they know all these numbers? I was impressed.
This couple has the same last name. I, however, kept my family name when I got married. Would the police and the paramedics find me if something ever happened to my husband? I'm sure they have their ways but I'm going to put a card in my purse that gives my husband's name. I want him to do the same. And I will ignore the cell phone warnings at medical offices because you just never know.
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