I know I know....I haven't posted in forever! Sorry!
Here's a pic of me & my friend Theresa - she's got that pregnancy glow doesn't she? She's gorgeous! This was at a wedding a couple of weeks ago. I am NOT crazy about the shirt I wore. Oh well, damage done...won't wear that again!
I had a birthday on October 10th. Turned 34. And that's where my story kind of begins...
I went for a routine cardio-echogram at my cardiologist's office a couple of weeks ago. The pulmonary arterial pressure came back a tad high, so my doctor (who is the BEST doctor in the world..at least to me he is) suggested we do a "right heart cath" procedure - in which they insert a catheter starting at my groin and leading up to my heart. There they will test the pressure and find out if there was a problem. So, I did that yesterday. Can you believe two things: 1) I am sitting here after a long day of work typing about this? and 2) I was awake for the entire procedure. Felt the catheter go in my leg and felt it in my heart. I know! I'm grossed out too! I must say, on Friday, I sorta lost it and I was very scared/nervous about the procedure. A lot of people must have been praying for me, because on the day of the procedure, I was cool as a cucumber. Went in, got delayed for about 2.5 hours and finally got back into the procedure room. Carried on a conversation with the nurses and Dr. the whole time they were testing me, and went home about 2 hours later. Went to work today. Simply amazing.
So the results given to me were that the pressure is reading a tad high,but nothing DIET can't fix. Bah. Lose weight. Bah. I already tried that, it's too slow of a process for crying out loud! But, I will continue on I suppose. I did tell my Dr. that I do work out very regularly and that I am trying to lose weight. His response, "keep doing that then". Bah.
I get a sleep study out of this though too, because I have horrible insomnia. Some nights I'll fall asleep and get up several times. Some nights I can't fall asleep for hours, only to be woken up from a very sleepless night and have to get up and go. Dr. thinks that this could be part of the pressure issue. Get the sleeping under control, blood pressure and arterial pressure might go away. Can't say I'll get many dates out of this (I'm fast forwarding here - I can envision the fact that I might need to wear a damn mask to bed), but maybe I'll be able to stop taking meds. All in good time, that sleep study isn't until the 17th.
Volleyball has started, I've got several weddings to attend and one to stand up in. A bachelorette party has been unceremoniously dumped into my lap (and lemme tell ya, I will plan the BEST bachelorette party EVARRRR for my girl!!), still working 2 jobs, going on a cruise in January, won our Fall softball division (undefeated...woot woot), both of my close friends are pregnant, I'm talking to an old friend (hi Nick) that I've been missing for a long time and I'm just trying to remain positive through it all. Busy, but I like it that way. Sorry for the non-posting, I wonder if anyone will even look at this because I'm so bad about updates? If you're out there reading, please leave a comment, just tell me you haven't given up on me yet!
