> Re: Angina and just your average chest pain
Hey, I didn't know how to put this, and like any self-respecting writer, I procrastinated. When I saw the cardiologist on Monday he had me go to emergency--what with at least one blockage showing up on the nuclear test and my continuing chest pains. I spent that day in emergency and half of the following day in what they call "holding."
I went into the catherization complex around 5P on Tuesday. (incidentally, Frank, that wrist approach I talked about turned out to be used only when it's exploratory. I got the groin approach.)
After watching my arteries show up on a screen looking like undernourished nightcrawlers, my doc paused and said to me "You feel like going home right after I'm through?"
I enthusiastically nodded.
He said I had a false positive on the nuclear test. I said, "This surprises the hell out of me."
He said, "Surprised the hell out of me too."
Not hours before this I was signing papers for permission for them to stint me, and another just-in-caser on emergency open-heart surgery.
Now all I need to find out is why I'm having chest pains. I'm figuring it's because I recently had a bad chest cold, and, coupled with my smoking, I might've pulled a muscle(s) in my chest.