Heart Smart

So this past Wednesday was my long-awaited angiogram. I don't know if the cardiologist appreciated my insistence on having it done and not just taking her opinion as "good enough". I know I feel much better! There were so many symptoms, etc leading me to fear I may have a bad heart:

• It runs in both my father's and mother's (and even stepfather's!) family
• I have mildly high cholesterol
• I was having lots of chest pains, then the event on the plane which many medical personnel agreed sounded like a heart attack
• My EKG, echocardiogram and stress tests all showed abnormalities
• My general practitioner saw what she thought was damaged tissue from a heart attack on my stress test.

Long story short - I'm fine! That's a huge weight off my mind!

Now - for anyone needing an angiogram, no need to fear, it was quick and painless. The hardest thing about it was having to lay flat for 2 hours afterward, to avoid opening the wound in the large artery. Everything else went smooth as silk...