Stent inserted in a artery serving my heart! I bet you liberals thought I did not have one!

I have always been a pretty healthy fellow and I knew my heart was a strong one.  I have tried to gain knowledge about what is going on inside my body by using concentration and other detection procedures.  I do my walks and try and stay in decent shape and have a weight not too big.  214 pounds on my 6-4 frame.  Well, a few weeks ago my doctor said it was time to get a stress test and see what is going on from a scientific standpoint.  I agreed.

I went to the hospital and they had me do the treadmill for seven minutes on a incline.  Get the heart rate up to 130.  Then jump off, lay down and get a sonogram in real time.  Along with a EKG.  So there I was laying there with a gal looking at my heart on a screen I could also see it.  And all those wires of the EKG on my body printing out second by second.  I was a bit winded as I have not run at all for twenty five years.  So Dr. Smith went over it all with me for about twenty minutes and recommended I get a stent for a possible blockage in one of the heart arteries  that he detected.

Circled area is where the stent was placed

I wanted to wait and talk to my doc and so I got a appointment and we discussed it all.  After the views of my doc were complete, I decided to have it done.  So a further appointment had me down to Mercy on a Thursday and they did the deed that day at 11:30 AM.  I was partially under but could hear Dr. Singh the whole time talking with his helpers.  Everyone was nice and from the attitudes, I guessed they had done this procedure many times.  I was given a IV in my left arm and they went into a artery on my right wrist to push the catheter into my heart area.

After about a hour and a half they were done.  I had to stay still of course and thankfully I never had to itch my nose as both arms were immobilized.  The doc put a tiny metal stent in one artery and later showed me the pictures.

Modern medicine is really amazing.  Now my blood flow is experiencing less resistance which may mean I will be around a lot longer to pester liberals.  So get your stress tests done, listen to your doctor and maybe you can live a few more years on this beautiful planet.