Today I had the pleasure of spending an hour in my doctors office. I had an EKG, a ultrasound of my heart. And one of my aorta. I also have been scheduled for a MRA, which is a magnetic resonance angography. Why all this? Well I will tell you. My mother had an aneurysm in her brain stem. When it blew out I was very young. But I remember that it made my mother's personality change. She,... well that is a story for another post.
Any who, I have a bunch of things wrong with me. I have Thoracic outlet syndrome, fibromyalgia, bursitis,depression, ptsd, anxiety, panic, also a heart murmur and occasionally an irregular heart beat. That is usually caused by anxiety.
I get to go to physical therapy to try to bring my shoulder into line. It curves forward because of the TOS. I is basically a muscle spasm that distorts my neck, shoulders, and back. I unfortunately is very painful. It makes me tired very quickly and sometimes it is very hard to get out of bed. But I live with it, because it is beater than not living at all.
I just read on line that they might use dye for the scan, oh boy that doesn't sound like any fun at all. It will be done on Sunday morning I just hope everything is ok up there. The prospect of a blood vessel that can kill me is kinda scary. Not knowing is worse I think.
Until next time, Good nite