We went to Obregon on Tuesday for the stress test and the Dr. decided that it was inconclusive as to whether Roy has any blockages in his heart. When Roy was doing the exercise portion of the test, all was fine; but when he was laying down for the resting part of it after, things went a bit funny. The Dr. gave him a pill used for angina and that settled things down. This apparently was not the reaction the Dr. expected. The Dr. does not want to do anything more invasive until he knows for sure, as it is an expensive operation to do if there is nothing there, in the neighbourhood of 80,000 pesos, (about $6,500.00 CAD), and up depending on how many blockages there are, if there are any.
The cost of the stress test and Dr. consult was 2000.00 pesos, about $161.00 CAD).
He feels Roy should have a Test at a Nuclear Medicine Dept., in a nutshell it is basically a nuclear stress test, where they inject some stuff into his veins and it travels throughout his body and then they can see if there is or is not a blockage. It is of course more involved that this; but that is the short of it.
He is basically feeling fine, no pain or anything; but has zero energy so there must be something going on somewhere.
Not sure when I will update on this again, I guess whenever I have something to say.
Have a good weekend everyone.
Saturday, June 01, 2013
Sunday, May 26, 2013
Back To The Emergency Room
We both had a good night last night and got some sleep. The night before on the other hand was not so relaxing.
Roy went to bed and started having pain and trouble breathing around midnight, so we got dressed and headed to the Emergency Room at the hospital.
After another ECG and some treatment we were sent home and he slept the rest of the night.
Yesterday morning our landlady came up with her blood pressure machine and we took his blood pressure and it wasn't too bad. One of the concerns of the Arrhythmia is the low blood pressure. We were then gently chastised by her for not calling her and getting her to go with us to the Emergency. She has told us over and over again to call her at any time day or night and she will accompany us; but we didn't feel we needed to call her and it all went well, so no worries.
She then wanted me to call the specialist in Obregon and tell him what had happened. I have a hard time with just calling a specialist as it is for me something you would only do in an extreme emergency even if you had his phone number up north. Here apparently you do it with any updates whatsoever. So after she left I called him and he wanted me to scan the latest ECG to him and other data so I did. He then called me back, remember this is a Saturday morning, and told us that he was very happy with the way the Arrhythmia had responded so far to the medications. His concern now has moved on to the Isquemia, (possible blockage) that had been noted in his last visit; but the greater priority at that time was getting the Arrythmia under control before heart failure happened. He emailed a couple of prescriptions to be used in case of pain again and instead of us waiting for the 3 week appointment made previously he now wants to see him this Tuesday to do a stress test and some other tests.
Our landlady reappeared and I told her of the new appt. and she is bound and determined to come with us in case we cannot understand something. I told her that as the appt. is not until 4 PM that we may stay the night if Roy is tired rather than making the 1½ hr. trip home. Not a problem, she has friends that have an extra place to stay and so I guess she will come with us.
It is not that we don't want her help, it is just that I am not used to asking people for help, I guess I have a huge streak of Independence, which she seems to find peculiar.
So, hopefully things will be quiet here until Tuesday.
Have a good day as we will be.
Roy went to bed and started having pain and trouble breathing around midnight, so we got dressed and headed to the Emergency Room at the hospital.
After another ECG and some treatment we were sent home and he slept the rest of the night.
Yesterday morning our landlady came up with her blood pressure machine and we took his blood pressure and it wasn't too bad. One of the concerns of the Arrhythmia is the low blood pressure. We were then gently chastised by her for not calling her and getting her to go with us to the Emergency. She has told us over and over again to call her at any time day or night and she will accompany us; but we didn't feel we needed to call her and it all went well, so no worries.
She then wanted me to call the specialist in Obregon and tell him what had happened. I have a hard time with just calling a specialist as it is for me something you would only do in an extreme emergency even if you had his phone number up north. Here apparently you do it with any updates whatsoever. So after she left I called him and he wanted me to scan the latest ECG to him and other data so I did. He then called me back, remember this is a Saturday morning, and told us that he was very happy with the way the Arrhythmia had responded so far to the medications. His concern now has moved on to the Isquemia, (possible blockage) that had been noted in his last visit; but the greater priority at that time was getting the Arrythmia under control before heart failure happened. He emailed a couple of prescriptions to be used in case of pain again and instead of us waiting for the 3 week appointment made previously he now wants to see him this Tuesday to do a stress test and some other tests.
Our landlady reappeared and I told her of the new appt. and she is bound and determined to come with us in case we cannot understand something. I told her that as the appt. is not until 4 PM that we may stay the night if Roy is tired rather than making the 1½ hr. trip home. Not a problem, she has friends that have an extra place to stay and so I guess she will come with us.
It is not that we don't want her help, it is just that I am not used to asking people for help, I guess I have a huge streak of Independence, which she seems to find peculiar.
So, hopefully things will be quiet here until Tuesday.
Have a good day as we will be.
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