Wonder if I Glow in the Dark?
December 29, 2008 by Steve Elledge
Well……..latest medical report for anyone who is following:
* Have had alot of tests recently trying to figure out the discomfort i have been experiencing in my chest area.
* Had a chest x-ray.
* Had an EKG
* Had the proverbial blood tests.
** Diagnosis: Shingles – one of the most painful and uncomfortable illnesses I have been privy to at my young age. A little different than many cases in that I never have actually broken out with any kind of skin lesions or pox! Bad news is – even with what medication they can give me I’m looking at 2 – 4 weeks of this stuff! I’m well into the 2nd one already.
* Today I took a Nuclear Stress Test for my heart. You heard me — NUCLEAR —–I have radioactive junk in my veins! Poor Vickie wont be able to sleep tonite if I give off too much of a glow!
Hopefully they are just confirming what we already suspect – my heart is strong and healthy. Doc just decided as long as we were doing all this stuff we might as well get a stress test done since I hadn’t had one since 2002. Anyway – what a miserable feeling that stuff gives you when they pump it in to your veins– instant sweat, chest contractions, nausea, the whole 9 yards. Then after they get you all pumped up its a total of about 25 minutes of laying perfectly still – first on back, then on stomach while they take pics of your heart from 64 different angles. Whole ordeal took about 3.5 hours. Results in a few days I expect – I’m already breathing easier since it happened this morning and no emergency has arisen LOL. I am confident it is all good!
* It has already proven one thing for you possible non-believers —- I really do have a heart! LOL ….yup……they found one in there!
* Now to just get rid of this Shingles crappola and all will be good once again. Got some new meds today —— feel a little better this evening (I should because both of them appear to be painkillers). Docs are helping me to become a non-alcohol kind of guy – can’t imbibe with the medication ……..Happy New Year eh!
* Wind is currently gusting between 40 and 60 mph – could peak at 70 tonite I have been told. Vic and i spent 30 minutes today looking for our trash can after they emptied it. True story – we found it 2 houses east of Kingsbury on 18th laying in a yard. For those unfamiliar that is 3 blocks away AND around a corner. Don’t know if Scotty next door ever did find his. Hadn’t last i heard.
* R & R & BGE here for 6 days and I just don’t feel like i got any time with Braelyn. Need some more of those Braelyn, Courtney, and Ashley hugs! Gonna start referring to my granddaughters as “G-Paw’s Angels”. Kinda catchy I think.
* Well — work officially started again today as my weeks vacation is over – but i only did half day because of the Stress test. And i am taking Friday off so only 2 more days to work this week. Hope i can handle it.
* Anybody wanna talk about those Broncos? I haver a theory and it isnt all “bad defense” like I have been reading. Cutler claims to have a stronger arm than even Elway and i tend to believe it. I’m just afraid his thought processes, and possibly his leadership ability, tend to be closer to Plummer than Elway. You can have the power, and even the agility and accuracy, and still not be effective. Somebody’s gotta tell the boy it’s not only “what you got” but “what you do with it”. Okay ….. just my opinion die-hard fans.
* Tired of reading? I’m tired of writing too.
The Dad
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