heart monitor

Well well well.

I went to the cardiologists today. Got to see a really cool ultrasound of my heart. Pam was in the room too and we could see and hear it beating. We could see the valves opening and pushing the blood out.

Apparently it looked good.

Then I had a 12 lead EKG and (first of all, it's EKG or ECG, they are the same but each Dr. calls it whatever they want.) the nurse said it seemed ok.

After that I met with the Dr. and we watched the ultrasound again and he looked over all the results and asked me a bunch of questions. Then he asked what I was there for and I explained I was donating my eggs upstairs and they noticed an irregular heartbeat and referred me here. I said I need clearance before my egg retrieval surgery which is supposed to be this Monday or Tuesday.

He said he can't give me the OK because he didn't have enough time, since everything looked ok, he wants more tests to really check. Then he checked my pulse and said "Ok, I feel it there, but it didn't come up in any tests we've dne yet." So it's coming and going, which he says could be totally normal and no big deal. But he still wanted to have me wait on a list for a heart monitor. He asked if I could call upstairs and ask the fertility clinic if we could push back the surgery a week or two. I just about fell out of the chair. I tried to explain that it's very time sensitive process and didn't work that way.

I started crying, and saying that this is so much bigger than me and that someone was relying on my eggs for their dream to come true and I've been on all these hormone drugs getting my body ready and blah blah blah sniff sniff! And a woman Dr said to hold on, and sure enough a heart monitor was ready at that very moment! What a suspicious miracle. lol.

So she got me all hooked up and I have to wear it for the next 24 hours. This should show how often and when I get the irregular beats, and how long they last. Tomorrow at 3 I bring it in to have the results read, and around 4 the Dr. will be able to see me and hopefully give me good news. I'm crossing my fingers that I'm healthy enough for the retrieval. It's nice that everyone is being so extra careful with my health, but it's also stressing me out a bit.

Doesn't this look like fun?!


Pam fills the syringe with Lupron-


Pam injecting me with Follistim-


My almost full sharps container!


So I guess now I just try to have as much normalcy as possible until I find out what's going on with my heart.

Easier said than done, but I'm trying.