I MISSED MY HEART STRESS TEST, TODAY.

 I missed my heart stress test, today.

Today is Monday February 25, 2013 and I had to miss my heart stress test today. Why! you ask, because as I got into the car and headed down the road I had a significant attack of angina. It was so bad that I turned around to come back home, but not before stopping at the side of the road and taking a nitro tablet. Fortunately just one nitro eased the symptoms. So now I have to call the testing laboratory and tell them I won't be there today.

For those that don't know the heart stress test is done to induce a heart attack by the doctor, "On Purpose".

Since I had a heart attack before getting a mile from the house, I didn't want to pursue the doctors test.

So now I have to concentrate on having a colonoscopy done this coming Friday. The gastro doctor wants me to stop taking Plavix, aspirin, beta blockers, and other heart medications for 7 days before the procedure. I think I am going to have my heart doctor and my gut doctor talk to each other before I make those changes.

aaarrgghh! *Head Slap*


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I RECEIVED GOOD NEWS TODAY.

I RECEIVED GOOD NEWS TODAY!

 I put this picture of a human heart here, because that is the topic of this posting. I had an appointment with my cardiologist yesterday as a follow up to my latest heart cath where 2 additional stents have been installed. This makes 22 stents for me so far. I think this may some kind of record. Shown below are scans of the x-rays of my latest 2 stents.

Before stents were installed.                                            After stents were installed.


The four very dark ovals are the wire ties that hold my rib cage together.
If you look closely you can see 2 areas circled with a pen showing the artery with no blood flow, notice that it is the same artery clogged in two places. On the right you can now see the blood flowing after the stents have been installed. This particular artery supplies blood to the a.coronaria sinistra(see the heart pictured above). Imagine if you can the heart not having the necessary blood flow to keep it pumping. Yes! it damn well hurts when the blood doesn't flow, and if allowed to go on too long, it will kill you.

Now, too the good news, my Doctor told me that the 30 to 40 percent loss of function that I incurred in my heart a little over ten years ago is now working. It seems that when I underwent the experimental surgery to open my front main ascending artery, which had been closed off for over ten years, caused that part of my heart that had not been working to start beating again. This means my heart is now functioning at almost 100% efficiency. The Doctor said, my heart apparently had not died, it had been stunned into stopping. While they were testing my hearts response to the new stents, is when they found the heart fully functional. Believe me when I tell you, I was stunned to find this out. I asked the Doctor if has happened before, and he said he didn't know of anybody having it happen.

In other news I am to stop taking two other medications used in controlling blood pressure. Since my blood pressure has been under control and on the low side, we are giving it a go.

I hope this has been as enlightening for my readers as it has been for me.

God Bless us all. from the gahillbilly.


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MISSING MY MEDICATION CAUSES BIG PROBLEMS.

THAT'S RIGHT, MISSING A SCHEDULED DOSE OF MY MEDICATIONS, CAUSES PROBLEMS.

It happened yesterday evening. Tuesday's are my day to take my granddaughter Felicity to her Tae Kwon Do classes. Her Class starts at 5:30pm and ends at 6:30pm. I had promised her I would take her out to dinner. I did this as a treat for both her and for me. You see I don't like to go to restaurants alone to eat, it isn't any fun to go eat alone.

Anyway, after the practice and going to dinner I got home to a hungry dog. So I fixed Dahli her dinner, then I settled down to watch the election results. Completely forgetting to take my medicine.

After going to bed, I was awakened with severe pain from angina. I had to take a nitro pill to reduce the pain. I went back to sleep and was again awakened with severe angina pain. Once again I took another nitro pill, and then I realized I had forgotten to take my evening dose of medication. So I went ahead and took my meds, and was finally able to go back to sleep and not be awakened by angina pain.

So, now I have learned a valuable lesson, I really need to take my medicine as scheduled or suffer the consequences.

That's all for now. God Bless from the gahillbilly.

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