Matters of the Heart

In my continued effort to figure out what's going on with me and my body lately, I visited with a cardiologist this week.  After answering a slew of questions, I was told that it could all be due to my stupid thyroid or possibly a heart problem.  So we'll run some tests to try to rule out the heart.  This morning I started wearing an 'event monitor'.  I have electrodes on my chest, attached to a recording device on my hip (looks like a beeper).  And on the other hip I have to wear a cell phone-looking thing to transmit recordings to a heart monitoring company.  I swear, between the beeper and cell phone on my hip and the electrodes peeking out of my shirt, I look like a real weirdo.  I have to wear this thing for a full week, even when I sleep.  I can't help but wonder what the recording will look like during certain events. But I won't go there. :)  And I can press the recording button if I start having dizziness, lightheadedness, etc. to get a snapshot of a particular time.

Then in a week, I get to go have a stress echo cardiogram.  When the doctor described it, all I could picture was an episode of King of Queens where Doug is running on the treadmill out of breath hooked up to the monitors. :)  They're going to take ultrasound images of my heart, then have me run on a treadmill, and then take more pictures of my heart.  Hope I can keep up on the treadmill!