There's a reason it's called Good Friday...

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Way back in December, I ate some bad chicken and promply spent the next 24 hours in the bathroom, and the next 24 hours in a state of more-or-less constant dizziness. The dizziness was getting to me, so I broke down and saw a doctor for the first time in quite a few years.

Well, the doc tells me I have high blood pressure (170/100), and prescribes some meds. She then asked me when my last physical was – IIRC, it was in 1981. Over the intervening years, I’d gone to urgent care for minor issues, but never had a regular doctor, as I’ve always been quite healthy.

So we schedule a full exam for January. During that exam, the doctor picked up a heart murmur. Since my mom’s family has a long history of heart disease, she refers me to a cardiologist. The cardiologist recommends ultrasound & a stress test, again based solely on family history – there’s no real evidence of anything wrong at this point.

The stress test showed a possible blockage – however, the results were inconclusive, as the diaphragm sometimes casts a shadow on the scans that looks like a blockage. So the cardiologist recommends cardiac catheterization, which was performed on Good Friday. The cath revealed a 90% blockage of the LAD artery, which was treated with angioplasty and a stent. I got out of hospital last night, and expect to return to work on Tuesday.

Chances are pretty good that if I hadn’t gotten food poisoning back in December, we wouldn’t have caught this blockage until I had a heart attack. So it turned out to be a very Good Friday in spite of having to spend the day in the hospital.

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That’s why I hate going to doctors. They are always delivering bad news and expecting me to do something about it.

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Well, hopefully you remember what good going for a regular checkup can do for you, just like Christians remember what good Jesus dying on the cross did for them :wink:

My uncle had a valve repaired on Friday, and he made the joke that he died on Good Friday just like Jesus (they stopped his heart momentarily). I told him he’s much more proficient than Jesus as it only took him a few minutes to come back to life as opposed to a few days. heh

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Well, it looks like somebody just got his ticket to Hell punched! :smiley: Ok, that was funny.

3waygeek glad everything’s ok. I’ll be keepin’ you in my thoughts and prayers.

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My father, in 1983, had a heart attack on Holy Saturday. On Easter Sunday they had to revive him, a code blue. He’s fine now, but said if he’d died he couldn’t think of a better day to go.

3waygeek, I’m glad you are OK! Thank God,(literally) for modern medicine. That’s why we still have you as a poster, and I have a father.

But now you are in the clutches of the doctors, and they will probably insist you start coming in for regular checkups!