Personal health updatery. (Jay, I miss your word play.) I recently had four episodes of mild chest pain while doing very mild exercise. I saw the doctor yesterday and had (my first ever) EKG, which revealed some cardiac ischemia. For non-medical people, that means the arteries supplying my heart are not doing as good a job as they ought to. My nurse practitioner said the EKG was not alarmingly bad, but she definitely wanted to refer me to a cardiologist and get a stress test EKG while I am exercising to see if they can reproduce what is happening, so we are moving forward with that. I have been Googling medical info a bit, and am cautiously optimistic that this is controllable, although I dont know if its reversible. Im kind of going back and forth between denial and alarm at the moment, and also rather a lot of shame. Like You knew eventually all the bread and butter would catch up with you, but YOU ATE IT ANYWAY, and you didnt keep up with your running! Im defending myself as best I can. Anyway, lifestyle changes beckon, I suppose, she said glumly. Thank you for listening.
Posted on: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 14:37:53 +0000
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