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Early bedtime?
On 3/24/2017 1:17 PM, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 3/24/17 12:58 PM, wrote: On Fri, 24 Mar 2017 10:55:40 -0400, Keyser Söze wrote: I had a routine stress test done a few years ago and the hospital charged the insurance company $14,000. Made me start thinking about it. My nuclear stress test a few years ago was $4700. I guess this was a more involved test than what I got. They just had me hooked up to an EKG and had me go up and down a little step box, right there in the office with the little blonde girl who works for doc running the machine. It was just part of a wellness physical. It was essentially the same as the one I did at Georgetown in 1961-2 when they thought I had a heart murmur. (I was in a study) I wish I had the tape from my test at 13 to compare to me at 70. Mine was a colossal pain in the ass. First, I was injected with isotopes and sat on a torture chair while some sort of radiation reading camera whirled slowly around me. Then I was up on a treadmill until I was ready to pass out, died, or completed the test. Then I rested for 30 minutes and was back up on the chair with the whirling camera. To increase my anxiety during the treadmill portion, the doc told me ( I was looking out the window) that he was sure my mother in law was walking down the medical campus. Mine was similar except I laid on a table that transported the patient into the Xray machine, similar to a MRI machine. Was told to lay perfectly still while the x-ray thing moved all around taking pictures from every possible angle. Took about 15 minutes to take all the pictures. Then, they rolled me down to a room where a cardiologist was waiting. I noticed a treadmill in the room but the doc said he was going to inject something in my arm that would allow him to control my heart rate. I looked again over at the treadmill and it's emergency off knob about knee high and told him I'd rather do the treadmill. I didn't like the idea of a doc artificially controlling how fast or burdened my heart rate was because a guy I knew *died* in the middle of a stress test due to a massive heart attack. I wanted to be in control, not the doc. He agreed but warned me that if I didn't get my heart rate up to a certain level the test results would not be as accurate. No problem. I huffed and puffed and made sure I exceeded the heart rate he required. (I think it was something like 160 BPM). Then, the injection of the isotopes again and back into the machine for another 15 minute x-ray session. Good news was that they found no blockages or obstructions. Bad news was I had to give up high test coffee. |
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