[CaptainCrunch]

After nearly a month of tests, doctors appointments, a trip to the emergency room, more tests, referrals and more tests. enough blood being draw to fill a bucket, enough scans to make me hope that I would turn into the hulk, and some terrifying days and nights where I thought that I was never ever going to feel good or normal again.


After all of this I finally got some results, and prescriptions that will hopefully straighten out a irregular racing heart, with chest pains, and generally feeling like total garbage. Hopefully over the next couple of days things will straighten out for me.


But why did I want to bump this. Because I feel like I have to point out how amazing the doctors and nurses that I dealt with at the Rocky View emergency room are, how amazing the staff is at the Total Cardiac Care center. These people outright do an amazing and tough job dealing with scared and nervous and sick people on a daily basis day in and day out. I know that there are times when I complain about things like healthcare spending/vs delivery and its still a problem in my mind, but that's not the fault of the front line people, like the technicians and doctors and nurses all they care about is the fight to make people better and that's an incredible calling.



I had a nice conversation with my doctor today where I thanked her for everything, set my next appointment and took my prescription to get filled with the warning about side effects and how I was going to feel over the next few days, and I joked with her that I appreciated everything that she had done for me and apologized over at times not being the easiest person to deal with, and her reply was kind, and she told me that she see's it everyday with patients, and that its all part and parcel with helping people.


Anyways, I'm blathering on. I also wanted to thank some of the people that reached out to me when I first posted this asking me if I was alright and showing real concern that's touching. This community, this Calgarypuck thing that I've been part of for years really is a meeting place for incredible human beings who can debate, and argue sometimes harder then we should, but the support for members here is amazing and touching and kind.


Anyways, I'm relieved that I have some answer, and that I have a course of treatment that might not need to be a permanent requirement.


Hopefully I can start feeling normal over the next few days or weeks and stop worrying about what's going to happen next, or what answer I was going to get.