May 27, 2004

Did you miss me?

What a friking day.
I left at 7:30 and just got back.
When I got there, my normally excellent blood pressure was 137/102.
So they hooked me up to the EKG machine because everything was up and above normal. Said I might have had a heart attack.
They drew about 6 vials of blood, took an xray of my chest, a soft tissue xray of my throat and poked and prodded me, shot me with Benadryl too.
I have a tattoo of an eye on my left chest area.
The guy who came in to hook me up to all the heart monitors was a bit surprised and then started asking questions about my tats and piercings all the while my left tit is hanging out. He thought nothing of it.
I'm all dude, why are we doing this test. My heart is good.
No it's not girl, look at that bp.
He stuck a gazillion of those little monitor stickers on me, chest, stomach and legs. I had wires everywhere.
The doctor did not do a throat culture but said all my tests look good including the heart.
He then felt around my neck and said that it feels like there are nerves pinched in the neck and shoulders probably from the scoliosis.
He gave me a script for xanax to relax me and hopefully those nerves.
He said the pinched nerves are probably the reason for the tight feeling in my vocal cords.
Told me to call him or just come see him at the ER again this weekend if it doesn't change or gets worse.
Told me to have my regular doc set me up an appointment with an ENT (ear, nose and throat guy) ASAP just to make sure that there is nothing else wrong that their tests didn't pick up.
I was in there from 8 am until 1pm and then had to go get my script.
I had to walk back from the pharmacy in that ungodly heat and now I am tired and hungry.
I see my regular doc on tuesday for all my other test results and now to get an appointment with an ENT.

I'm gonna go rest now and watch LOTR ROTK thanks to the lovely Rah.
Later days.