Here I sit – wired up like a Borg. I hope there’s no thunder and lightning in
this little storm that’s rolling through right now!
Just a side point: Shouldn’t that be “lightening and thunder”? The one always comes before the other, yet I
always hear them spoken of in reverse order.
* shrugs *
So I had a little visit with my cardiologist this
morning. Pretty much standard checkup
type stuff. I borrowed an idea from
Weer’d Beard* and wore a western shirt with snaps so I could do the Superman
shirt-rip when they asked me to unbutton.
I only got a mild chuckle with that.
In the end I wound up performing the stunt three times before they were
done with me. I’m glad I was prepared!
So the first bit was for an EKG. The Doc said he didn’t like what he was
seeing. Something about an arrhythmia
where the old ticker is ticking a bit much and throwing a few extra beats into
the mix. Some things should not
extemporize on the rhythm, if you follow my meaning!
So then we switched rooms and I got to watch it ‘do’n it’s
thing’ on the ultrasound monitor. That
was rip two.
Rip three was when the tech came in and wired me up to the
portable monitor that’s now in my pocket.
I can take that off tomorrow morning between 10:00 & 11:00 AM. Then I get to drive back out to the office to
drop the thing off. I have no idea when
I’ll get to hear about the results.
Another fun proposal is that they want me to do a sleep
study to determine if I have sleep apnea.
Oh joy. Okay, so my snoring sometimes
wakes me up… I can tell them that. In fact, I did. All the more reason to do the study they
said. If confirmed I may wind up
sleeping with some kind of gizmo to help me breath.
Sounds delightful. I
have a hard enough time getting comfortable enough to fall asleep as it
is. That and trying to shut down all the
stuff I’m thinking about makes it a challenge.
Now they may want to add some technology to the mix.
What could possibly
go wrong?
(grumble grumble tongue planted firmly in cheek grumble
OUCH! I bit my tongue!)
* I was thinking of a particular post of his but I’ll be
damned if I can find it.
(grumble gru –
oh… I already said that.)
2 comments:
I have to use a mask for sleep apnea. After a heart attack some years ago, they had me tested for apnea. It turned out that I quit breathing 75 times an hour while sleeping, and my oxygen level was running between 58% and 75%. It was the cardiologist's opinion that the apnea had been a large factor in my heart problems.
Get tested, it may save your life.
I will do that, Bob. Thanks!
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