Received Go Ahead from cardiologist!

Oct 02, 2009

Finally heard from the cardiologist's office this morning - turned out he was away for training the entire month of September so couldn't review my ECG and blood test results, and the receptionist didn't pass that info to me - his head nurse was quite irritated.   

She read his note to me:  the echocardiogram showed my "heart muscle and valves are superb", as is my cholesterol - both LDL and HDL - in both the basic and more in-depth blood tests he ordered. YEAH!!  I've been eating oatmeal 4-5x a week (at work) and severely cut back on my salt intake for 10 months now - my BP has dropped, too, after 3 years of being slightly elevated - my PCP is very happy.  

If I weren't self-pay, I'd be tempted to be irritated at my lack of co-morbidities... except my company's new insurance policy has an exclusion for WLS entirely, curse them. 

So.. now I can reschedule the colonoscopy appt that triggered the whole cardiology visit in the first place (minor arrythmia discovered during pre-op EKG - which I've known about since I was 24 years old. No biggie - rarely found by any of my docs over the years).

And - I'm good to go for the VSG. YAY!!!

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