<p>I also think you did the right thing and will have you in my prayers tonight.</p>
<p>Take care of yourself. Your husband and your kids need you in good shape to help evaluate and seek options for dealing with circumstances.</p>
<p>Eat light but nourishing meals. Caring for your challenged child should help you with the discipline for this. Do not neglect any routine medications you need yourself. Take your vitamins. Drink your orange juice. Get proper sleep. I speak to you as I would to my daughter, wife, or sister. (They find me pompous and annoying too.) </p>
<p>Hopes and prayers.</p>
<p>You and your family are in my thoughts and prayers. And, yes, you were right to tell your kids.</p>
<p>grandparents prefer to thnk of their grandkids as children. Agree with everyone else that what you did was right. You and your H are in the parayers, hearts and thoughts of many. blessings to you.</p>
<p>Of course you did the right thing to tell your children. If the situation were reversed or even about one of them (or someday a wife or child), you’d want then to tell you wouldn’t you?</p>
<p>I second tango14, get to a teaching hospital.</p>
<p>Thoughts and prayers are with you.</p>
<p>papengena,
Wishing you and your husband the best of everything. You are in my thoughts and prayers.</p>
<p>papengena, you and your family are in my prayers. You definitely made the right decision in keeping your college seniors in the loop. They aren’t babies anymore, and would probably have been very upset later on to find out that you had been withholding such vital information concerning their Dad. Please, seek a second opinion concerning your H’s prognosis. Initial diagnoses have been known to be wrong. Also, remember to take care of yourself throughout all this. Try to get adequate rest, and remember to eat. I’m sure I don’t have to tell you that you can’t be of help your H or your kids if you if you find yourself on the brink of collapse.</p>
<p>papengena- sending you good vibes, peace, prayers and what have you.
A lot of us are in different time zones, so there may be someone to listen when you think you are all alone. Vent, rant and ramble away. We are here.</p>
<p>My thoughts are with you. You were right to inform your kids.</p>
<p>Sending love to you and your family.</p>
<p>Sending best wishes and prayers to you and your family.</p>
<p>You did the right thing telling your childern. I was at college when my dad was hospitalized…no one told me until I came home for break that he had been in the hospital for a possible heart attack. I refused to go back to school until I got an absolute promise that I would be called…and even then I called home much more often for a while. (This was back when the dinos roamed the earth–no cell phones or email.)</p>
<p>And I’ll second the advice to take care of yourself. If the primary caregiver goes down, so does the patient. Light meals that are good food, not junk. Sleep when you can, take your vitamins. Call supportive people. Vent online or in person, just vent. Drink water not coffee.</p>
<p>I remember life before cell phones. You are remembering incorrectly. There were no dinos. However, radiation from the early, large models was a factor in the sabretooth tiger and mammoth extinctions.</p>
<p>I’m praying.</p>
<p>Hoping you come back with better news today!</p>
<p>My best thoughts and prayers are being sent your way. You did was was right for you and your girls, don’t give it a second thought. Stay strong.</p>
<p>Thank you everyone for being so kind. I am over the initial shock that I had yesterday. I really was blown away by the doctor. He is at a wonderful hospital…he can’t go to our local one because of his heart condition…he has to go to one thats an hour from our home… I’ll be going to visit him later on this afternoon. I’m really grateful for all the prayers and good thoughts!!</p>
<p>My thoughts are with you and your family. I agree that you did the right thing to inform your kids. I know from personal experience that they will actually feel calmer knowing that they can trust you to tell them the truth.</p>
<p>i hope you hear some good news this afternoon!</p>
<p>every family needs to handle a crisis in their own way. my parents opted not to tell anyone about my dad’s condition. they rarely shared info with us as kids and that was a bit hard, yet i totally respected their privacy. </p>
<p>friends and family were a bit disgruntled that no one told them how bad my dad was–but that’s what they wanted and if that made them happy, so be it. </p>
<p>i think what feels right for you is what is right for your family.</p>
<p>hope you hear some good news today–i feel for you–my husband was hospitalized 3-4 days the week before christmas–all better–for now anyway.</p>
<p>Good luck to you and your husband. You were absolutely right to tell your older children. My mother never told me anything, and I always resented it. My son wants to know what’s going on and has told me so repeatedly. </p>
<p>Because they’re in college, they’ll have a big support network.<br>
Take care of yourself and don’t be afraid to ask for help. </p>
<p>How is your third child handling all this?</p>
<p>Agree with those who say, Get him to a teaching hospital. That’s where the experts and innovators are. If anyone knows how to treat your husband, it will be someone at a Yale, Cornell, UCLA-type medical center. </p>
<p>We don’t know where you live so we can’t make suggestions. But find a cardiologist who is affiliated with a teaching hospital and get your husband there.</p>