I need my coffee, and if I don’t have any I get headaches,
low grade at first that build up to a symphony of kettledrums between the eyes.
It makes me very cranky and if I don’t eat along with that I get downright
ugly. (Uglier)
Recently I had to go to the cardiologist for some test under
the heading of nuclear stress tests. It is a 4-5 hour procedure where you wait
a lot in the waiting room between procedures, but the requisite to the test is
complete fasting and no caffeinated drinks and nothing other than a little
juice or water. I could take any medication I was on in the morning, but no
blood pressure medication. My appointment was at 12:30 PM and it would last
until rush hour in the most densely populated areas of auto traffic!
But wait, I forgot to mention what I did in the morning.
Without my coffee and breakfast, I had a 9:00 am dental appointment! Yes, to
put in a post for a temporary crown, in the most difficult area of the mouth
for a dentist to work in: the upper last molar on the left. This required
constant drilling, more drilling and then some drilling: as he had to clear out
an infection that was under the gums! The scrapping and digging went along very
well with the drilling I thought. Plus there was this assistant that decided to
clean out a drawer that was next to my left ear, and with the headache, the
drilling and scrapping, and the hunger, she was making the most awful
racket I ever heard, all contributing to my headache and misery. I got out of
the dentist office at 11:30 am, went home for a minor breakdown of e-mail
checking and a minor errand. My headache was getting worst!
Immediately afterwards I left my home for the cardiologist
office and checked in, sat down for 3 seconds and they call me in! Quickly I was
led in for my test and I was in the beginnings of a long afternoon but only
halfway through a long day.
One of the things they do with a ‘nuclear’ stress test is
insert a radioactive chemical in which it races your heart while you lay there.
Sounds better than a treadmill, but you feel worse. It speeds up your heart,
and it feels like someone poured hot water into your veins leaving you feeling
like you wish to die. If I was given the choice, I just might have picked
death. The port is put into your arm first thing when you enter, and it stays
there for the whole time you are in there, and you better keep your arm
straight, there is a needle sticking into your arm after all!
There is another form of torture they put you through and
they do it twice: you lay on this platform with your arms raised over your
head, straight back that after a minute feels very uncomfortable. I had to hold
that position for 9 minutes, as it takes a picture of your heart. Twice I had to do this! Before
the stress test and then afterward, it really helps you feel just dandy about
everyone and everything, I kid you.
Well, I was supposed to go to a Board of Director’s Meeting
that evening, and decided that I would see how I felt when I finally got home
after the day I had which included the afternoon/evening rush hour and the
idiots that rush and pass on the right were out there.
Getting home I made myself a cup of coffee, and just sat in
my chair, a headache going full blast, I hadn’t eaten yet, I decided that the
Board would have to carry on without me.
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