8 weeks later trip to the ER!

On my way to take Michelle to meet a photographer, my heart started racing again. We turned around and went home instead of to Salt Lake. This was at 2 pm. Heart rate - about 180 beats per minute. I decided to sit quietly and see if it would go away on its own. About 5 pm Clyde took me to the store so I could use the blood pressure cuff and see my heart rate. I really thought it had slowed a bit. nope - 188 per minute. So my neighbor brought over her stethoscope and let me listen to how fast it was beating. She encouraged me to go get 'converted' at the ER. This procedure is called "converted" because you get converted to a healthy heart state from a very fast heart rate. So we went at 7 :10 pm. Saw the same nurse as before, and at 8:15 pm got the same heart stopping shot as before. Worked like a charm, I think medicine is amazing that a shot of liquid can reach the heart in seconds, stop it and restart it so it beats normally. That's a miracle. Clyde is glad to be done with this long before the middle of the night! 6 hours is a long time to have your heat beat at 180 bpm. I'll count that as heart exercise...
I have a second follow up appt with the famous electro cardiologist so we'll see what he says after a second episode in 8 weeks. I promised to take my meds until then.

Shivverrr

It's been really cold here in Provo, as low as 4 degrees at night and Thursday it only got up to 16 degrees all day. So when I came home Friday night I didn't think much when Michelle told me she was really cold and had to put on a fleece jacket to even eat dinner with us. We left pretty soon after dinner to go to a movie with the Paxmans. Upon returning at 10:10 pm, we noticed the house was registering at 66 degrees!! No wonder Michelle was cold! We experienced this same problem of the furnace not working on Christmas day. After a $75 service call three weeks ago we thought all was well. So last night we bundled up and went to bed before our body temps dropped! This morning the house was 60 degrees! I baked some cinnamon rolls, drank hot chocolate, and wore my heavy fleece robe over my clothes. A different heating business is coming this morning to check out the problem. They have warned us it will be expensive since they charge almost double to come on a Saturday! Yikes. We wonder if we could last through the weekend and how cold the house would really get if we waited till Monday. Carlsons are coming from Denver on Sunday to visit the baby so we will pay the huge weekend fees to get our house warm. Right now I'm planning to hurry and get in the car to go shopping -- it's bound to be warmer at the store than our house!! Post Note: $350 later, we are getting warm again! a part had to be replaced, this time it is expected to work for a long time!

Fondue Fun

We had a very successful fondue party for New Year's Eve. Nicole land I found the sort of recipe on Cami's blog, then called Emily for more details. We used my new electric fondue pot and made a double batch for our 13 person party (prepared on the stover first). Here is the recipe for the record:
2 cans cheddar cheese soup
2 8 oz blocks cream cheese
8 0z swiss cheese, shredded
12 - 14 oz cheddar cheese
6-8 dashes nutmeg
3 shakes of garlic powder
3 shakes of onion powder
chicken broth as needed to thin - about 1/3 cup to start with and a little more during the night.

for dippers: grape tomatoes, celery, broccoli and cauliflower (cooked in the microwave 2-4 minutes to remove a bit of the crunchiness), two kinds of artisan bread ( rosemary and plain french), granny smith apples, beef little smokies, Italian meatballs,
We also had shrimp and sauce, spinach dip with crackers, pork little smokies in a glaze of bbq sauce and grape jelly, blue corn chips with yummy guacamole by Cisco, and queso from Bajio Grill (which we heated up in the little potpourri crock pot!).
JD and Jean and Carrie were still here due to weather so we had a fun crowd and Alicia and Dustin and new baby little James came later. We fed 13 in all! For a late dessert we had brownies and peppermint ice cream - perfect amt of sweet and chocolate to end the night.
We played Catch Phrase and laughed hilariously.
I think we have a new tradition! Maybe later I'll post pictures.