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.
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