Heart Healthy
Well, I had my cardiologist appointment on Tuesday. He did order a echogram of my heart (an ultrasound). He said everything looked fine in the ultrasound. My legs were a little swollen. He looked at all the test results that the other doctor had taken, and said he didn’t see anything to worry about. He is concerned about my fast heartbeat, and they noticed an irregular beat while testing. My blood pressure was high, too. Of course, I had just come from school and we were doing PLAN testing that day. Naturally, I was dealing with unruly children who think that they can misbehave when they’re in a different teacher’s classroom. He wants to give me a stress test in 2 weeks. He put me on a beta blocker, hoping that this will also aid my bp medicine and diuretic into controlling blood pressure and swelling.  He also suggested losing weight, which I had been working on until my feet started swelling and I was losing all this energy. So we’re trying his assigned diet, which is basically like the South Beach Diet. I’m not sure about this one since it is low carb and low sugar – and I have episodes of low sugar. The beta blocker has a warning about probably making me drowsy or dizzy. Like I need to be any more sleepy than I already am! In fact, that’s why I’m not at school today. I was too dizzy to drive. And I’ll probably be crawling back into bed in a little while.
My mother had a triple bypass when she was in her 50′s, so that is something of a concern for me. This concern came to life yesterday at school. One of our teachers had a heart attack during his 4th period class. This was not his first one either. He’s 61. He was alert when the EMT took him out on a gurney to the hospital. But with my history of heart problems in my family, and my own history of blood pressure, that could be me in 10 years. So I’m trying very hard to do this diet thing, and hope I can get back on the treadmill soon.
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