to me. Not that we work in high stress jobs or anything! For a stress test they hook you up to about 50 cords to your torso and make you run on a treadmill, and they make you run pretty hard, as they monitor your heart. I hadn’t run so hard since wrestling practice at Fort Osage High School in Independence, MO.
A couple weeks go by and I revisit my cardiologist to discuss my results. I puff my chest out thinking I overachieved for those 11 ½ minutes and everything is going to be fine, and she tells me that they didn’t get all the information they were looking for. Great, gotta run again, I think. But she says no; this time they are going to inject me with dye and scan my heart, like an MRI. Ok cool no problem, I think.
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In a few weeks I visit my cardiologist again. She tells me that they just want to double check and do an angiogram on my heart, just to make sure everything is good. What is an angiogram/cardiac catheterization? Tis is where they stick a tube with a camera into your artery either through your leg or your wrist so that they can, in this instance, check your heart. I asked, “Do I have to?” She tells me if that if she was my wife, she would say yes. And of course, my wife, Loida, said yes too.
A couple more weeks go by and it’s the last week of August, the week of our home opener at the University of Oklahoma. I’m thinking, “Oh this will be a simple procedure and I will be back to work the next day, no problem.” Tis was my mindset. And that was my wife’s
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