Unprecented Update....

I am here to report that Stacy is now walking without a walker, wheelchair or cane. I have quit throwing up and can now cough and sneeze with confidence. Now, the rest of the story.
I got the flu right in the middle of a two part stress test. This is the test they give you where you are injected with a foreign substance and they try to induce a heart attack by running you at full speed on a treadmill set at the Mt. Everest incline. Except this time, they decided to induce the stress with chemicals.
On the Friday before Vomitfest '09 I did the "stressed" part of the test. I was scheduled to do part 2 the following Monday. However, thanks to a certain nursing home, I came down with the flu and ended up being hospitalized over the weekend. So, I eventually took part two on Wednesday morning.
Later that afternoon I got a call from my cardiologist's nurse saying I needed to come in as they found an "abnormalitiy" in the results of the test. Stacy and I went in last Friday and I got the news that I knew would eventually come but hoped not quite this soon. There was a problem with the baked potato in my chest where a normal person's heart would be.
The test showed that when my heart was stressed, blood flow to the bottom of my heart stopped getting blood. The doctor, whom I love like someone who as saved my life, said I probably had some sort of blockage and I would need to have a "heart catheterization" done. I go in the hospital this Thursday for the procedure at 10. He said that I should plan on staying overnight. I said that would be great, just enough time to make out a "bucket list".
So, if I have ever had anything you wanted, now is the time to lay claim to it. Just kidding. I may get a balloon or a stent and that will be that. It wouldn't be much fun without some drama. I guess we don't really need to discuss the "worst" case scenario. Maybe next week.
By the way, our insurance is so sh***y that we will be having bake sales every weekend the rest of the year.
I have broken into a cold sweat writing this so I'm going to go hose off and go on about my Saturday activities.
That is all, Peters out!
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