Special thanks to Sunkist for sponsoring today’s post. The summer months are huge for entertaining here. I suspect this may be the case for you too. What could be better than kicking back with friends and family and enjoying some laughs and a good meal? But sometimes we need to be careful about those meals. [Read More]
Finally, Heart Results
Has this been the longest week ever? It sure seems like it to me after waiting, pacing, calling and waiting some more for the results from my nuclear stress test as well as the labs I did last week. Why, why, why aren’t doctor’s offices more sensitive to the stress one goes through when waiting [Read More]
Not What I Wanted to Hear
At last the doc called with my holter monitor results. I swear an 8pm call from a doctor is never good news is it? Heart rate ranged from 50 to 170 BPM. How’s that for a nice range? Atrial action was fine. But the ventricular action was a little, for lack of a more technical [Read More]
Yikes, September Already?
I am back (alive!) from our weekend with the in-laws. But how can it be September already? Maybe because August was filled with our Alaska trip and all kinds of back to school scrambling? And let’s not forget my laundry list of health issues, cough rotator cuff cough heart cough, thyroid, cough cough, adrenal fatigue, [Read More]
August Loving, Not Loving
Yikes August is slipping away and I haven’t done this month’s installment of loving/not loving. Loving: I finally got my holter monitor experience over with. It was a PIA walking around (and running) with all those wires sticking to me but it’s over. Not loving: I won’t get any results for an entire week. Geez. [Read More]
Week in Review
Kids went back to school! It seems early, cuz it IS early, and of course now we have our summer’s hottest weather. Trust me it’s better for everybody this way. Mama can hang at the pool by herself. No news, is well, no news: Still no answers on the heart issue. The referral for my [Read More]
Affairs of the Heart
I had my annual physical last Friday. Besides the doc running a smidge late, all was going well and I’d survived my stint in the nasty gown when the EKG tech wheeled in her machine. Shortly after the electrodes were removed my doc was back. I expected her to send me on my merry way [Read More]
A Blog From the Heart
My paternal grandmother died of a heart attack long before I was born. Heck my dad was still a boy when she died. All but one of his sisters died in their 40’s and 50’s. The final one made it to a ripe old 65. Heart disease claimed them all. My 5 siblings and I [Read More]
