{"id":415,"date":"2019-10-20T08:09:08","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T15:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kreklewetz.com\/asd\/?p=415"},"modified":"2020-11-18T07:23:38","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T15:23:38","slug":"welcome-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/asd\/2019\/10\/20\/welcome-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m back from the dead. Not really. I shouldn&#8217;t say that in the context of this blog! I just mean to say that I haven&#8217;t updated in quite some time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My health hasn&#8217;t been great lately, so I&#8217;ve been seeing specialist, after specialist to get to the bottom of things. Yesterday I saw an Internist. I explained my symptoms and he gave me an exam. Apparently my heart is having many extra beats (ectopic beats.) He&#8217;s ordering me a holter monitor, so now I&#8217;m just waiting for that appointment. I also had an ECG while in the clinic, which I found a bit concerning. I suppose that&#8217;s why patients aren&#8217;t supposed to look at the ECG summary on the screen and try to interpret it themselves. It said &#8220;ischemia and possible problem with repolarization,&#8221; whatever that means. I&#8217;m trying not to think about it until I follow up properly with the Internist and my Cardiologist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also had a Coronary CT last week. It&#8217;s very similar to a regular cardiac CT but they give you a beta blocker before the exam because your heart must be 60 beats per minute to get optimum photos of the heart\/vessels. Luckily, I usually have bradycardia, so I only needed a tiny dose of beta blocker for my heart to slow down enough to start the test. Then I needed an IV to get my blood pressure up, since my BP is usually low too, The test itself only lasts, maybe 10 minutes. They give you a spray of Nitro right before to dilate blood vessels, which makes your head feel funny, as does the contrast they inject in you. It makes you feel like you&#8217;re peeing your pants. It&#8217;s quite a shock the first time you experience it, but I&#8217;ve had it several times now, so I know what to expect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, back to the waiting game. The holter monitor should be available soon, then I follow up with the Internist and Cardiologist, Dr. D.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back from the dead. Not really. I shouldn&#8217;t say that in the context of this blog! I just mean to say that I haven&#8217;t updated in quite some time. My health hasn&#8217;t been great lately, so I&#8217;ve been seeing specialist, after specialist to get to the bottom of things. Yesterday I saw an Internist. &#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":[42,41,26,40,18,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-415","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-journey","7":"tag-coronary-ct","8":"tag-ecg","9":"tag-holter-monitor","10":"tag-internist","11":"tag-st-pauls-hospital","12":"tag-supraventricular-ectopy","13":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/asd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","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=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/asd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417,"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/asd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions\/417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/asd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/asd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/asd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}