Complications

I think the cardio vascular complications may be catching up with me.

I have been having troubles running the dogs in agility.

Today I went to the cardiologist for my annual checkup. Nuclear stress test time. I should have realized something was up when shortly after they started xrays, the nurse practioner started following me around. I was actually relieved she was collecting my medical history during the test rather than waiting after.

Oh, and you need to know about this — in the middle of the test, my phone rang and it was my pulmonary specialist. They wanted to see me at 1:00 pm. The techs said I could get there then, of course, I didn’t tell them that the pulmonary specialist is at big Baylor. We were in far north Dallas.
Oh, that the doctor wasn’t taking BCBS but I could be out of network. Oh well….

At the end of the test, the tech said that the cardiologist wanted to see me. Gee, it was just last year when I bitched about paying $345 which was 20% of the total charge and not once seeing the cardiologist, wasn’t it.

Well, he said the test was border line and he wants to check for blockages. They are supposed to call and make an appointment. At this point, I hadn’t decided if I was telling husband or not.

I got to big Baylor at about 1:20, but there was a huge line waiting for the valet — and it was going to be the fastest and actually not any more expensive way to park the car. So I got up to the office at 1:30. The even funner part is that an old friend of mine and my husband (we each met him seperately before we got married or EVEN met). I blurted out the cardiologist news without thinking — then realized I then had to tell the husband right away.

Seems that the pulmonary specialist wants me to have an autoPAP, and wanted me to have a specific brand rather than getting the old machine repaired.

We worked out a deal with the DME, I have an autoPAP now, and they are going to process the paperwork on a new smaller one as soon as it comes out, sometime in the next 90 days.

So all in all, it was good and bad.

More on the cardiovascular thing as I know.