There was a time….not so long ago… when the nurse at “The
Heart Failure Clinic” would want to send me to the hospital for tests….I would
balk. My reasoning was, they are expensive and invasive, and I do not feel bad. Give me a glass of pinot grigio and send me on
a brisk walk around the block and I will tell you precisely how I am doing. No muss...no fuss and the price is right! Not to mention the results are always accurate!
Since the surgery, I have become a big old fat weenie, depending
on the medical industry’s high priced, horribly invasive and insensitive
methods of telling ME how I feel. SO… I
got my ass up on the treadmill (sans the pinot grigio) and pushed my heart and my body hard! I walk on my treadmill everyday and it has always given me the first tell-tale
signs when things in my heart were going wrong. Why
couldn't it tell me when things are going right? Clearly the doctors are
evading my questions and are not going to tell me what they know, not without
more of their expensive testing! God forbid they
make and educated assessment or explain to me what they are looking for and
why.
I can figure this out on my own! I doubled the speed of my normal walking on
my treadmill, very close to a run, for 2 min and 30 seconds. I was totally out of breath (not too proud of
that) but NO ANGINA! NO ANGINA…. 3 months ago I could not walk for 45 seconds
without having to take a nitro glycerin.
The CHERYL JONES EVANS method of cardiac function testing is a thumbs up success!
Based on this “kind of” scientific, non-invasive and
extremely affordable test….I am doing GREAT!
"Take a Walk on the Wild Side" Lou Reed
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