Tomorrow i go in for the first part of my super-stress test. Even knowing what it entails i am looking forward to it. Well, actually, the test is not hard. The hardest thing will be getting stuck with a needle. so they can put the goop in me. The nurses often have a hard time getting a vein right. The thing that they will be doing that i really don’t like is putting the goop in…. it is some sort of glow in the body stuff… slightly radioactive if i recall. They will put some in tomorrow, and put some more in on Friday, and on Friday i get some extra gunk to make my heart pump like it is stressed. I hate having them put things like that in my body. They tell me it dissipates, but i know it is not good for me.
But then i said something like that to a doctor once about medicine… that i hated to stress my body with chemicals. She said, well you don’t seem to mind stressing it with food and that is doing you more harm than the medicine. That has stuck in my mind. She had a point.
The reason I am looking forward to this test is that it will answer, for a while, the question of “how is my heart?” If it is doing fine, i will step up the exercise. If it is not…. well, the doctor will do what needs to be done, and hopefully that will go well… and then i can step up the exercise without fearing that i will knock something loose.