Well, I've jumped 3 more hoops and passed only one major one left to do. The Cardiologist told me the echo cardiogram showed no change in the mitral valve prolapse and that I quite easily passed the nuclear stress test. I'm going to glow like crazy with all this nuclear meds they keep putting in me. I had the breathing test with the pulmonolgist. (Side note....spell check is telling me I need to change pulmonologist to the word vulcanologist...what?) the first half of the test consisted of me breathing according to the instructions the tech gave me. Then she gave me 4 puffs of Allbuterol (which spell check says should be changed to Butterball) and we redid the first tests. That was to see if the meds helped me breath better. She laughed and said well it did help you to breath better 18% better but you were already at 100%! I have a sleep study to be done on the 25th and then the reports go to my dr.
This is taking longer than I thought it would and in the last month I've been seeing people who have had the surgery, lost big amounts of weight but gained it all back and then some. If I do that just shoot me! It all comes down to controlling those things you don't realize you are doing....licking your finger when you make cookies or tasting the soup to make sure it's just right or eating a few corn chips while you watch tv....I'm going to have to be very attentive to that. I can't ask Tim to help with that cause if he points things out like that I get a wee bit pissy.
It's still scary but I keep thinking it will be worth it to bend over w/o my eyeballs popping out. Or sitting in a chair, looking down and finding out I have a lap! Yahoo!
This is short, storm coming and I don't want to loose what I've written....I love you all and thank you for your prayers and your faith in me.
