More fun with doctors

Today I got to visit with my new cardiologist. Yep, you guessed it...... he likes me. Let's back up just a minute. About 45 minutes after the time of my appt, the receptionist came to me and 2 others also waiting and told us that our dr was behind schedule. She told me that there were 3 people in front of me. I had a book and figured I'd hunker down and read for a while. My consolation was that it was now 10:45 and I know that no dr misses his lunch, so I would get out before too many hours. About 5 minutes later, they called me back. I just sat there because I knew it couldn't be my turn, the others were still waiting. They called my name again. One lady in particular was upset about waiting, I heard her saying something as I left. (It wasn't my fault). The results of this visit was that over the month that I wore the monitor, I had 2 times that I went a-fib. So now instead of going home tomorrow as planned, I am staying to have a heart MRI done Friday and also a stress test. Didn't I just have an MRI yesterday? At the time I thought they should  just do a full body MRI. I guess we will do the full body, one part at a time. As far as the stress test goes, I did one way back when I was in pretty good shape when I was in college. I didn't last very long then. I'm thinking that anything beyond 30 seconds will be a gravy. I'm not concerned about pain from my workout, because I won't last long enought for much of that. I will keep you posted. Oh and I also get to wear a heart monitor AGAIN. Last time it had 2 electrodes that we hooked up and I wore it for a month. This time I have 7 electrodes and I wear it for 8 days. The 1st monitor just recorded heart episodes. This one records everything. The dr did say that if everything checks out ok, I won't have to see him for another year. My dr adventures continue.

I stayed away from mall parking today. I have the hospital parking down now. In fact, my car can get itself from Trish's house to the hospital and back now. I just have to remember which clinic I am going to.

That reminds me. Today when I was walking down the hall in the hospital, one of Dr Fang's nurses walked by. I recognized her, but didn't think she would remember me. She looked at me and said. hi. Maybe I could have a goal to be recognized in every clinic at he U.  NOT!