Testing

So, it was nuclear stress test time on Tuesday ... AGAIN!

This was the third one this year.
I have no idea what it is my cardiologist is thinking!
But, being dutiful was drummed into you in my European schools.
The youth of today could well learn a few things from such an environment today.
But then, students today have "rights".

Anyway, I was shot full of a nuclear ion, to map my heart with.
Wait for an hour.
Lay in a modified MRI machine for 20 minutes.

Get injected with something more.
It takes an hour for your heart to pump the goop around.
Then you get to experience a 90 second heart attack!

You want to throw up.
You want to run, but you can't get up.
Too dizzy.
Heart is pounding.
Muscles have no voluntary tension.
The pain is mind numbing.
You grit you teeth.
As you plan the cardiologist's demise.....

And then, it is gone.

You are left drenched in sweat.
They bring you coffee to combat the effects.
And then back into the machine for 30 minutes.

Seven hours over-all.
Hope it was worth it.
It would be nice to have this heart issue figured out.
And, put to rest!

As it is, it has been a week now with no repeat.

Not holding my breath, but hoping no more ....

(of course Tuesday night, was a repeat failure!)