Well, folks, it’s mostly good news today.\u00a0 I braved commuter traffic to reach Stanford at 9am for an echo, a stress test, and a clinic appointment with Dr. Murphy.\u00a0 The echo went fine.\u00a0 My function is down a little – 35% – so they’re going to keep an eye on that, but everything else looked normal.\u00a0 The stress test was definitely successful in stressing me out.\u00a0 One of the nurses commented afterwards that my heart rate only got up to 118, so I was feeling a little dejected – like I’d failed or something.\u00a0 When I met with Dr. Murphy, though, they brought in the results for him to look over, and he commented, “Well, I’m glad to see you’re not a faker.”\u00a0 I asked him how he could tell, and he said there are numbers in the results that can indicate pretty decisively whether a patient was really pushing themselves to their limit.\u00a0 He said I probably went “beyond the limit, in fact.”\u00a0 So I felt validated.<\/p>\n
We talked about the results from my second CT Scan:\u00a0 The swollen patches are still there, unchanged.\u00a0 He intends to re-present the case to his collegues, but they’re probably just going to check them again in six months.\u00a0 The clotting they noticed in my artificial conduit last time is gone.\u00a0 That’s my favorite news, because it grants me a six month reprive from the Coumadin issue.\u00a0 Then we talked about adoption.\u00a0 He is hesitant to sign my physician form.\u00a0 He said he’d like to read through the paperwork and think it over.\u00a0 I presume he’ll let me know when he’s made a decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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