When I woke up this morning, they told me not to eat anything. There was the possibility of a procedure scheduled for 12:30. But that didn't happen.
Instead they took me down into the bowls of the hospital for a stress test around 8:30. This was a Nuclear Stress Test. The procedure is to put me under this camera that takes a panoramic series of pictures of my heart. Then they put me on a treadmill, get my heart rate up to 136 and inject me with something radioactive. That way, it really lights up my stressed heart when they put me back under the camera for a second series of photos.
I told them it was unlikely my heart rate would get to 136 because of the statin drugs I am on. When I work out at the gym, the best I have ever achieved is 110 beats per minute.
They agreed it would probably be difficult and decided to shoot me up with a drug that tricks my heart into thinking it's going at 136 and then complete the stress test that way.
The over/under of it all is that my heart looks no different from last summer. I have no blockages or closures. So that is good to know.
The rumor now is that I will go in tomorrow for an Electro Physical Study. They call it an E.P. Study. They go in just as if I was having an Ablation and try to tickle my heart to make the PVC beats that have been causing me all this trouble.
I don't know exactly when that will happen but they are denying food after midnight. So that's a good sign.
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