15/8/12 - Hurdle leaped

Aug 15, 2012

I don't really do the hurdles, as I'm sure we are all aware.

I'm just home from the Heart Institute, having completed the cardiac CT scan that was, in my mind, the final hurdle in the detour that has been the story of my cardiac history and its effect on the process of getting to weight loss surgery.

The CT scan went well;  the usual, "oh, I don't know why they had you on calcium channel blockers since July 10 as they only work in 10% of our patients".  So, I've put up with six weeks of lethargy, fatigue, weight gain and discomfort, but hey, never mind, it's all a process, right?

So, sure give me a Beta blocker, which in 14 minutes had my heart rate at 50, where they wanted it (something six weeks of drugs did not do, but hey, never mind, it's all a process, right?).  Easy ... feeling drunk, being cooperative, in to the scan room, lie down, shoulders well protected and lifted with pillows (I learn from previous experience, and don't want to be crying from pain).   Scan commences, drugs in, no problems at all, the nice warmth spreading through my loins is interesting. *laugh*

So, in to the Heart Institute at 8:15, out by 10:30.

Please please please let me pass this test.  Let me not have a heart blockage and let me not need a stent

If I need a stent, WLS is off the table.   OCH won't perform WLS on a stented patient until 18 months post-stent, that would bring me to age 65, and no longer eligible

Please let me pass (its a remote possibility that I won't, but I'll believe it when I see it).

I'm tired, cannot take Metformin for the next two days as it interacts badly with the contrast dye used in this particular test, I'm going to bed (I love being retired).

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