test updates

I did my stress test. I am happy to announce that I made it almost 7 minutes. Every 3 minutes the incline and speed on the treadmill increases.  The first 3 minutes weren't bad at all. I got in stride and could have gone for a while at that pace. Then everything increased. I was still ok for that 3 minutes. Then it kicked up again. I was hanging on to the bar and they told me to stay as close to the front of the treadmill as I could. I started falling back. I needed longer arms to stay on there longer. They wanted to know 1/2 to 1 minute before I was going to quit. I made it about another minute. They shot some contrast in me, then turned the treadmill off. My job was to get off the treadmill as quickly as possible and on to the table so they could do an echo. I stepped down off the treadmill. My legs were so very wobbly. I was having trouble standing and I was supposed to hurry. Then I got to lay on the bed for a while until everything got back to normal. My BP went up to a whopping 128 over about 70.

Next I had my heart MRI. Because of my central line, I couldn't use the cardio-MRI machine. Instead I went back to the MRI machine that I used earlier in the week. I asked for a full body MRI so I wouldn't have to go back soon, but they didn't do that. I finally was able to escape. I go back the end of the month.

For anyone who wants to know about A-Fib. The upper chambers of the heart beats really fast. Like 600 beats per minute. I read it is like jello shaking. I have had 3 known episodes of A-fib in the last month each only lasting 5-7 seconds. It can be caused by stress. One of my episodes was while I was doing cub scout training. No I really wasn't stressed enough to cause this, but maybe I could use this to get rid of a cub scout job. (Let's see, maybe I could use this to get out of other things too). A common procedure to correct this is called ablation surgery. They go into the vein in the groin area and go in and make everything all better. Stay tuned. Oh, and I learned that John Stockton had this procedure done about 6 yrs ago.

I came home and canned peaches and pears. After the last trip I canned tomatoes. Mike wants me to can him some chili con carne and I have some dried beans to bottle. Then I think I will be done for this season.