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Happy birthday to me.
Mar. 14th, 2012 08:16 amSpent a largish chunk of yesterday afternoon at the cardiologist. Highlights were getting an EKG (again), getting a chest ultrasound (kinda cool; despite my glasses being off), and getting a chest monitor to be worn for 24 hours.
Said monitor sits in a little cloth pouch, similar to the stuff used in dentist patient bibs, currently dangling from straps around my neck. There's four wires, connected to four sensor pads, one just below the u-bend of my clavicle, two on my left ribs, and one on my right ribs.
They used a tiny brillo pad on the portions of my skin they intended to affix the sensor pads to. This is now the second funniest medical thing ever, right after the tiny floral stickers used in mammograms. :D
As I am a redhead (with distressingly wide ashblond roots that I REALLY need to attend to) with a high tech heart device on my chest, and Tom is a scruffy dark-haired reprobate who provides me with much needed assistance, I have decided I am now Iron Woman, and he is my comely but morally degenerate personal assistant, Mr. Davner. :D
Hopefully this thing will be able to pick up on the things going wrong in my chest. I REALLY don't want to do the IV of blood markers and massive scanning device thing.
Said monitor sits in a little cloth pouch, similar to the stuff used in dentist patient bibs, currently dangling from straps around my neck. There's four wires, connected to four sensor pads, one just below the u-bend of my clavicle, two on my left ribs, and one on my right ribs.
They used a tiny brillo pad on the portions of my skin they intended to affix the sensor pads to. This is now the second funniest medical thing ever, right after the tiny floral stickers used in mammograms. :D
As I am a redhead (with distressingly wide ashblond roots that I REALLY need to attend to) with a high tech heart device on my chest, and Tom is a scruffy dark-haired reprobate who provides me with much needed assistance, I have decided I am now Iron Woman, and he is my comely but morally degenerate personal assistant, Mr. Davner. :D
Hopefully this thing will be able to pick up on the things going wrong in my chest. I REALLY don't want to do the IV of blood markers and massive scanning device thing.
