TL; DR: The procedure was quite uneventful. I have an implant (or as my heart sister called it, an alien implant) in my chest. It’s under the skin of my left breast, which is tender and sore at the incision site.
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New doctors, progress update
6 AprI’ve made progress in finding new doctors since leaving Atlanta and settling here in my new home.
Continue readingLoop recorder implantation, and Shingrix
18 JanI called my insurance company (Medicare Advantage plan) about the procedure to implant the loop recorder. They quoted me a copay amount of $295. That’s the same cost as the (not yet rescheduled) echocardiogram.
Continue readingCT Angiogram
30 DecI woke up early on Friday to get ready and go to an appointment for a CT Angiogram. I had slept poorly that night, so I was up really early. I’m not normally a morning person, but I was anxious about this test. Not the test itself, really, but what the results might show.
Continue readingResults of Cardiac CT
13 DecI spoke to my cardiologist a little while ago about the results of my cardiac CT on Monday. He’s concerned mostly, as far as those results, about enlargement of the aortic artery, and also some fairly significant calcification (stenosis) of the aortic valve. He has ordered an additional test regarding those conditions.
Continue readingHeart monitor update
29 Nov
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I’ve been wearing a heart monitor since 6-November, and will continue to do so until 6-December. I’ve not heard anything new from the cardiologist since that call telling me it had recorded an instance of atrial fibrillation.
Continue readingFollowup on Estrogen Patches
14 NovLast month, I wrote about the expectation of receiving estrogen patches to replace the tablets I have taken since 28-July-2011. I haven’t written about them since, primarily because I still have not received them.
Continue readingAnother Journey Through US Healthcare
7 NovI’ve been waiting for over four months to see a cardiologist as recommended by my primary care physician in late July of this year. Today was that day. I’ve not written previously about this, because I really didn’t know anything other than some smartwatch indications. Those indications included the AFib readings I’ve written about before, as well as some very low (30 BPM) and very high (159) heart rates.
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