Interpretation of my periodical visit to the doctor today

He thought I should have a quick EKG. After, he said my heart was running a little slow but decided that was acceptable. He wants me to come in next week for a periodical sonogram of my heart however. So I set that up. I got my flu shot and set up an appointment for my periodical fasting blood test. He wrote out my prescriptions and I was done. I interpreted my slow heart as meaning it could stop any time, but as I said I don't expect to have a whole lot of trouble dying once the time is at hand. I told the doctor I had several very bad bouts with chronic fatigue and the way I recovered and survived was by going slow. I said I do not run. I walk slow. He said, "that's fine. Maybe everybody is going too fast anyway."
I went home, buying a whopper on the way home with a free one for Doc. He had insisted on me using his bus pass. I stopped to give it and the bus pass back to him and interrupted him in the shower. Doc always comes to the door naked if he happens to be undressed, but my heart is very indifferent to that sight since I know he means nothing by it. Too much alcohol over the years has rendered him harmless.
But I am just warning you in case you happen to visit him.
It has been a week for stents at the Westward Ho. Paul Patrick's mother, Mary, had to have one stent this week. He is the subject of my last video that I am still featuring this week. She said this was her 9th one and said she had been having some angina. So far she has been able to get there before having a heart attack!
Resident Karen's BF of 17 years, the same age as my son, 56, finally went to the hospital with a 'headache' after he had been having heart pains for over a month. They did an immediate EKG on him and rushed him into surgery to put in a stent to open up a 90 percent blockage. He said they told him he nearly flatlined. Younger men don't seem to realize they can die of a heart attack if they just wait around long enough with heart pains. Anybody with heart pain should go to emergency immediately to prevent such a close call. They put another stent in the next day and he is home already, relieved and saying he is feeling fine.
My first cousin has had to have 25 stents. He must come close to having the world record. But he recovers fast and has a busy life in politics.
I think I had a relatively good visit to the doctor with nothing too alarming going on. We always discuss blood pressure, which was good, and weight which was about the same, and exercise, a pretty good summer of swimming when the pool was open.
Doc has the same doctor and says he is just too cute. I said no doctor can ever be too cute for me. That is how we ladies like them. He is in fact very handsome. He is from India.
I walked to and fro from the doctor's office, so I got some exercise! That was a plus.

How do you act after a heart attack?

I called my son Gary last night at home to find out how he was acting. He assured me he was taking his 5 meds now. The pharmacy did not have his plavix prescription so he even called the cardiologist and had him call it in. He said he had prescribed it, but it disappeared somewhere along the line, but plavix is the medication he must take to keep the stent open and doing what it is supposed to do. He also has to take aspirin and three blood presssure pills. Gary also said that he had some chewing tobacco now as he is trying to quit smoking, and if he just can't stand the craving, he chews a little. He had not gone to work yet, but hired a mover because he has to be out of the house he and his ex wife just sold this weekend! He is looking at other houses, but will go to a motel and stay until he buys the house. He says for tax purposes he needs to put the money from the other house into another one.
He had to go to the office to get instructions from his boss who is going to be gone all next week. Gary does the bidding now, so won't have to work his body, just his brain. Although this may have been a problem because it is sedentary work compared to supervising a job out in the field where he walks all day.
He said a lot of members of the family called him which seemed to cheer him. I gave him the number of an older family member who has had 15 stents! He is in his late sixties now and still goes to work every day. Gary was 56 this year. Two of my uncles on my mother's side died of heart attacks younger than he is. They probably had high blood pressure, too, possibly inheriting it from their mother and my grandmother. My mother had low blood pressure even though she got heavy. And the slow heart beat of an athlete. But her heart beat got so slow in old age she had to have a pacemaker put in. I am learning more about the heart because of my son's attack, I must say. I am watching my diet! I hope he is able to change his lifestyle, too, after this sobering development.