About five weeks ago I had my stress test and echocardigram, it wasn't to bad. It was just a matter of being hooked up to a few monitor to watch my blood pressure, and heart rate. The whole idea was to get pictures of my heart to make sure it is functioning properly.
Today I received my results, I didn't actually see the doctor I saw the "advanced practicioner". I didn't there was such a thing as advanced practitioners. I am well familiar with the PA - Physician Assistants. You know the ones who actually think they are the doctor, but they are not. But I must say they are very professional at treating the patient's with great bedside manners.
But back to the results. It was interesting she give me a mixed explanation she said well everything looks normal, but we did see you have a grade 1 enlargement of the top left and right values. You know your heart is divided into four sections. She also when on to say your heart muscle isn't relaxing as well as it should when its pumping. I thought well, that doesn't sound 100% normal to me. But she assured me alot of people have a small enlargement its nothing to worry about.
The one thing she was concerned about was the chlestoral level which were elevated 40 points higher than normal. I didn't know practitioners could write prescriptions either. She wrote out a script for Zetia 10m.g. and ordered new blood work to be taken in 6 weeks. Which is pretty much routine after begining a new regiment of medicine.
There you have it todays test results.
fondly,
from a patient's perspective,
Adrienne
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