Re: Purrs, please...?

In article <1141157044.267915.202740@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
<sriddles@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Singh wrote:
I just left the hospital after a few days on the cardiac floor.

They still don't quite know if I had a heart attack. Thing is, they
don't know what it is at all. Saturday at work I started having the
chest pains, not to mention a fit of panic that could have shaken off my
hair by the roots. I had the stress test, the nuclear crapola shot into
me, my pictures taken by essentially a gigantic geiger counter. Now the
THINK there's a tiny abnormality that I must get more pictures of today,
and well, I'm having kittens right now.

I haven't posted as often as I'd like, and have procastinated on things
like sending out cards and things. I'm sorry, one and all, if I've come
off as a rather thoughtless bum. I hope for your forgiveness. I also
hope that all they saw yesterday was a little shadow caused by my
necklace or one of my big boobs flopping over! Purr a few for me please.
This isn't a wrist bone now and frankly I'm scared $#!+less.

Blessed be,
Baha

Purrs that all is well and you're just having anxiety or something.
(well, I don't mean "just"--not to minimize that either)
Don't be scared. If anything's wrong, they'll find it and fix it. It's
absolutely amazing what medicine can do these days. I know this; I am
living in the bonus round because of it.
I do wish they would consider an angiogram (heart cath). It is a fairly
serious procedure, but really the only way that I was diagnosed. I
passed the stress test, thalium test, bloodwork, and ultrasounds with
flying colors and pronounced cardiac-healthy when I was actually on
borrowed time with four clogged arteries. They would not have found it
without an angiogram.


Cardiac MRI, in centers with substantial experience, appears to be at
about the same accuracy as angiography, but it's noninvasive. It's not
a total substitute, depending on what diagnoses are being considered.
There are some other noninvasive tests, but I'd put them in the
research category.

A heart cath is more than just shooting dye, which is the angiogram
part. It also measures pressures in the chambers of the heart, which
can, for example, give information on lung function, valve
inefficiencies, etc.

Purrs.
.

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