TennesseeKidd's Journal

Hello All Its been almost a week since I wrote and its been a rough week. Sunday I relax and watch football, Monday I did exercises and run in place for two minutes and watch football. Tuesday was PT day and time for Doug to be back from leave. Doug and Jon both talk to me about doing PT. Medicare made a new policy that they will only pay so many treatments a year so I'm getting low for the year. I told Doug that mom is paying for me and Joey to go to the gym there and he was very happy. So he got Jon to go over the exercises to do and show me all the stuff to do plus new stuff and I have a red card now. They have the Physical Therapy within a gym and they have both gym and PT. So now I go to Gym but I will see all of them even though I'm not in PT.There is some exercise I will need the ball they have and I have to have someome with me to do one exercise and the elliptical is the one I want on but I forgot to ask but having some hard time with chest pain I doubt they would let me. So I went to Aftercare and then got home before 8pm so we could watch NCIS together. Its a show we watch as a family. Well we watch the show and then me and Rhonda went downstairs to watch another show but it wasn't on and we ended up watching some shows that she recorded and I hadn't seen yet. So I was up late and went to bed tired and woke up early tired. Ralph is going with me thank goodness. I call to see if I could take my meds. I haven't had no caffeine for 24 hours and nothing to drink or eat after midnight. I got ready, played on the computer and then it was time to go. We check in at outpatient registration then cardiology. They took me back to get vital signs and do a IV. Well I told them I take lots of meds and have asthma and have problems with machines like the treadmill. Well they ignore me and put me on the treadmill any way and I guess they wanted me to pass out. I went as long as I could and they keep saying come on come on they I got where I was getting toward the back of the treadmill and I told them I couldn't breath and I couldn't do it. They ask me if I wanted them to stop? duhhhhh So I had to sign a consent form for the chemistry stress test. Well they started that and my heart rate wouldn't budge so they had to give me medicine to up my heart  rate so it would work. My heart rate had to be 150. Well finally it got there and then my chest and head was pounding with pain. So it was almost over with. I got dressed after my heart rate was normal and we went to radiology and they took pics. They did give me graham crakers, peanut butter and milk. After I finish there I found Ralph we got some cash and went to the atrium to eat this was inside the hospital. NOT FINISH!!!!!!!