What A Day
Today I had to go to the local hospital for a Nuclear Stress Test. I have known since Wednesday about the test and I can't begin to tell you how much I have dreaded it! It really wasn't all that bad, nothing like I had imagined! First a little more info on how the test came about. Last week I was sick, so sick I decided to go to the Dr. I also had been suffering from shoulder pain, some shortness of breath, and the sore throat I had was more in my neck...all these symptoms prompted my Dr. to give me an EKG and it showed some small changes from the last EKG I had about 3 years ago....hence the stress test. I think the word nuclear was more frightening to me than anything else. As soon as I arrived at the testing area, they hooked me up to a monitor, a blood pressure cuff and inserted an IV. After the hook-up I began the treadmill part of the test. I have PAD and was kind of worried that the treadmill might prove too much, but I wa...