{"id":250,"date":"2018-06-01T09:32:03","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T16:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kreklewetz.com\/asd\/?p=250"},"modified":"2020-11-18T07:25:18","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T15:25:18","slug":"pre-admission-clinic-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/asd\/2018\/06\/01\/pre-admission-clinic-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Admission Clinic Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>I had my pre-admission clinic visit yesterday, which I like to refer to as a hospital scavenger hunt. I arrived at the clinic at 9am and was sent off into the depths of the hospital with a map, a pencil, instructions to visit the lab and cardiology department, and told to report back to the clinic at 10:15, hence the feeling of a scavenger hunt. The lab was busy so that it took me the full hour to get my blood work done. I came back to the clinic and met with a nice nurse who asked me a ton of questions, looked at all my meds and supplements, and took my vitals, height, and weight. Then I went off to cardiology to get my ECG. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cedars-sinai.org\/health-library\/diseases-and-conditions\/s\/sinus-bradycardia.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sinus bradycardia<\/a> but otherwise normal ECG.) I returned to the clinic and logged onto myehealth.ca to see if my lab results were processed yet, and to my surprise, they were posted! (All normal, except for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthline.com\/health\/hyperchloremia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">high chloride<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>I waited awhile longer, then visited the last stop on my list- anesthesiology. Again, I answered a ton of questions, mostly that the nurse had already asked me. The anesthesiologist then went over the procedure and told me what to expect. He assured me that this was a much better option than open heart surgery, since it&#8217;s minimally invasive. That&#8217;s the third doctor who feels this way, so that destroys my belief that open heart surgery is somewhat &#8220;better.&#8221; He also was very surprised that I still run with a hole this big in my heart, measuring 2 square centimeters. &#8220;A+ for effort!&#8221; he said. He assured me that I&#8217;d feel much better after the procedure. I&#8217;m so used to being tired all the time, sleeping my life away, not able to breathe when I run, usually feeling run down, and frequently plagued with chest pain that this has become &#8220;normal&#8221; to me. I&#8217;m starting to get excited for a new normal!<\/p>\n<p>Eleven days to go!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had my pre-admission clinic visit yesterday, which I like to refer to as a hospital scavenger hunt. I arrived at the clinic at 9am and was sent off into the depths of the hospital with a map, a pencil, instructions to visit the lab and cardiology department, and told to report back to the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,32,16],"class_list":{"0":"post-250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-journey","7":"tag-asd","8":"tag-pre-admission-clinic","9":"tag-royal-columbian-hospital","10":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/asd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/asd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/asd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/asd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/asd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/asd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447,"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/asd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions\/447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/asd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/asd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/asd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}