| JULY 23, 2004 I was scheduled for a Nuclear Stress Test to start at 7:15AM. I arrived and shortly thereafter I was given the radioactive dye by IV and told to drink 4 6oz glasses of water. They told me they'd call me back around 8:30AM for the first films. Some time around 8:30AM, I was taken back and placed on a table with a rotating camera. It took about 18 minutes. Afterwards, I was told to go back into the waiting room and I would be called back in about 90 minutes. The next part of the test was the hardest part. I was taken back and given the cheniacl stress. They told me that I might feel flushed, tight in the throat, pressure on my chest, shortness of breath and I did. After about 5 minutes, they take you down but since my blood pressure did not rise very much, it lowered a bit too much. They had to ask the doctor if they could release me to wait for the last set of pictures. I was. They gave me a snack and told me to go back and wait. It probably took me another 10 - 15 minutes before I actually felt like more like myself. I was taken back and placed on a table for the next set of pictures. It took another 18 minutes and I was free to go. I got the call Monday that the test confirmed the EKG finding of Anterior Ischemic Changes and I needed to have another cardiac catherization to see what was going on. It was scheduled for August 3. Read on and you will see it was done before that. |
You are listening to Memories from the musical Cats, written by
Andrew Lloyd Webber and T.S. Eliot. I felt this song was a perfect selection
for this site because of the affiliation I feel with Grizabella. Although
for her,
it was age and not health issues that changed her, neither of us are who we
were before, on the outside, and it can affect how we feel on the inside.
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