Tomorrow's the Big Day

Aug 09, 2011

Tomorrow is THE DAY.  I'm finally getting a little less nervous about the surgery.  Yesterday was my last day at the office, and everyone was so nice, it was really heartwarming.

I must admit that I'm really hungry and tired all the time with the liquid diet - I've been having 3 muscle milk and 3 light yoghurts every day, and I'm starved!  I've been doing this for a week, and lost another couple of pounds.  A good note to remember if I get regain is to try this for a week every now and then.  Of course, I'm craving anything carbohydrate - artisan bread, pizza etc, etc.  Nothing sweet, but a crunchy bread.  All the artificial sweetners in everything keep me from craving sweets.

I had my nuclear stress test and echo cardiogram on Monday.  A couple of notes - the treadmill goes really fast!  I could easily gone further, but I couldn't walk any faster.  I'm a slow and steady kind of person who could take more incline, but not any faster.  I passed all with flying colors - the nurse said she could tell that I had been exercising, and If I took it 6 months ago, she never would have said that!!  The doctor said everything was great, and I have no blocked arteries.  The 3-D picture of the heart that came out of the nuclear stress test was really neat.  Computers are really amazing - the technician could move the heart all aound and rotate it with a flick of the mouse.  During the echocardiogram, not only were pictures of the heart taken, but the sound of each valve was evaluated and recorded for posterity.  Of all my tests, I expected to have this one come out the worst, and it came out the best.  Thanks to my PCP who has kept me on cholesterol drugs, and nagged me to exercise all these years.

I had a little glitch at work.  The doctor said 2-4 weeks to be away from work - I figured 2 weeks without doing anything then 2 weeks at work with normal hours or working from home.  Well the disability group said 6 weeks.  My boss was shocked (and so was I!!)  I'll talk to my doc at 1 week or so, and then call the disability group.

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