Medical Month

Well this does seem to be the month for things medical. On Tuesday I had a cardio stress test along with being injected with radioactive tracer (which is a lot less fun than it sounds :), and the cardiologist was not entirely sure of the result - there was a shadow or occlusion over the lowest part of the picture, and it's not clear whether it is caused by a blockage, or just by the thick muscle of the top of my diaphragm, as this is forced upward by my excess bulk.

Sooo, tomorrow I'm off to the hospital, where they will put a camera on a tube up through a vein in my groin, to have a look at my heart. If nothing is wrong, I should be out by lunchtime, but if they spot any blockage, they will insert a balloon and inflate it inside the artery to clear the blockage & I'll be in overnight (mostly to ensure nothing funny happens post-op, I think).

Given that this all started because I was feeling periodic palpitations/heavy pulse, and occasional left-chest pain, I'm more or less expecting that they will find something (and presumably fix it).

Anyway, on top of that, I visited the Vein centre last week, to check on my swollen foot/calf, and they have found some of the valves in my surface vein network aren't working properly (so leaving blood to pool in the extremity, hence the swelling), so on the 30th I'm scheduled for laser surgery with them (where they put a tiny laser into a vein, trace it up through the leg and seal the problematic points. That would also be nice, as this is a fairly annoying condition - it kinda restricts my mobility a bit, but mostly just aches a lot and is generally vexatious.

So, hopefully start the new year a whole new man! well, bits of one anyway.
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Update:
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Well, cardiac camera show done now, and all good news: no ischaemic blockages or anything like it - a few small traces of artherosclerosis unsurprising in a 51 year old, plus a lecture on losing weight, getting fitter and eating better, surprise surprise. Still don't know the cause of the symptoms but at least it's not cardiac.