Yes, my card is WONDERFUL! I will not move because I don't want to leave her.
Anyway, I had my MUGA scan early this morning, and already have the results. And the news is good. My EF is 63%. If I recall correctly, my EF before surgery was 51%, so this is excellent news. Which leads my card to think my symptoms are coming from an area other than my heart. I'm staying on the lasix (I lost two pounds overnight, and my card said my face looked less full today than yesterday) and will be talking to my gyn a week from today (already had that appt. made). I just hope we can get some answers in THAT department that are as good as today's news.
The worst part about today's MUGA scan, though was the IV stick. I've got terrible veins, and after the blood work yesterday I had a huge bruise covering one arm, leaving that one difficult to use. They tried the other arm, but the vein disappeared once they got the needle in. They (two nurses were working on me, trying to find a vein) started to look in my hands. I told them that in the past I would run my hand under hot water and that would bring the veins to the surface (it was REALLY cold in the room, which wasn't helping). One nurse left to turn on some water and the other nurse continued to look. Well, he finally found something, but I certainly wasn't happy about it. He threaded the IV needle through the vein on my knuckle! OW! It hurt SO badly. I was crying by the time he finally got it completely threaded. The other nurse kept appologizing, but the one who did it just said "well, I got it." I was not a happy camper. It continued to hurt even after he stopped messing with it. I could not wait to get the stupid thing out. Even now, it is still sore and I can't bend that finger very well. At least it was in my left hand, and not my right. It would make my workshop this afternoon very difficult, I'm sure.
Anyway, that's the story. Other than the evil IV, everything else was a breeze. Oh! But it was funny because these nurses had never seen anyone with situs inversus totalus before (all my organs are on the oposite side of my body from "normal"). One nurse asked if we could do scans on my other organs so she could see them. The head guy said no, though.
And when the doctor came in he told them they were going to have to run the scan again, because the computer wasn't going to recognize anything. So they had to run it again, this time reversing the image so the computer would be able to analyze it. I never make things easy, do I?
I love to keep those docs and nurses on their toes.
