My father was taken to the hospital today due to Tachycardia

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I woke up this morning and got my daughter off to school. My son was playing a video game and I did the dishes. I sat down to enjoy my coffee and got a text from my mother. Last night at midnight she got a text from my father saying that he was having Tachycardia and it wasn't stopping and he was getting dizzy. This has happened a few times in the past. He has a lot of health issues.. a hole in his heart he was born with, strokes and high blood pressure etc. My mother told him to go to the neighbors and to have him take him to the hospital. He said the neighbor wasn't home. She told him to call an ambulance. She then got a text from a clerk at a gas station a mile down the road saying that he did not look good and she had called an ambulance for him and told her what hospital he was taken to. My mother drove the 3 hours up there in a panic. The doctors were able to get his heart rate down with medication thankfully (he takes medicine for it daily but apparently needed more this time). He is being released now. What started this Tachycardia episode was he over exerted himself bending up and down putting up sheetrock and cleaning up. He was paying a carpenter to fix up a little house my parents own and couldn't afford to pay the man anymore and decided he could just do it himself. He can do the work but his body cannot handle it. I feel very bad for him. He could have died so I am very glad he is okay now. He really needs to take it easy but he just has no one to help him do this and so he has to do it all himself.