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9/7/12 - Lurching forward - most of the detours done
Jul 22, 2012
Another update on my journey, thanks for listening :)I'm just back from meeting with two cardiologists at the Ottawa Heart Institute with a pretty much clean bill of cardiac health. The results of my PET scan show a small abnormality, but nothing extreme. There may be a blockage in my heart, but highly unlikely. In obese women, in particular, they often get false positive results due to the extra breast tissue that blocks the view of the heart.
They're going to do a CT scan with contrast (and I have to be on a calcium channel blocker for several weeks in advance of the test -- ick!). I've been on them in the past, and they make me very sluggish -- they slow down my heart beat, and that's needed before the scan. I found it very difficult to walk anything more than 50 feet without having to rest, while on a Beta Blocker in the past. Once the scan is done, I'm off that drug. Whee!
The cardiologist, Dr. So, says that he would not normally do anything further, but he knows the stringent requirements of the Ottawa Bariatric Clinic and that they would want this extra test done. (His wife is a physician at the Bariatric Clinic.) He does not think I have a blockage of any sort, but that I'm being triple tested just to be sure.
So, again, it's hurry up and wait -- the CT scan should be booked in the next month. They'll call me.
It's a good thing I make appointments for first thing in the morning, that way I get out of bed at a decent hour. *grin*
Detour, not roadblock. And I'm getting reassured again and again that I'm in good shape for the shape I'm in.
