I had a rough week which is why there hasn’t been anything new ’till
now. My legs were very swollen which is a symptom of congestive heart
failure. My Mother died of it when she was about my age, so you can
imagine I was worried. I visited my cardiologist and she put me in the
hospital for a series of tests. We’re talking 5 days of kind nurses
with a sense of humor and food you have to have a sense of humor to
eat.
that I have to have an angioplasty to open up some blockage in my
heart. Another two days in the hospital but at the hospital across the
street. This meant that I had to go across the street in an $800
ambulance ride for four minutes. I could have walked across the street
and pocketed the $800. There was drama between two doctors. One was my doctor, Dr. Chutney,
and the other was her boss Dr. Bulk. Dr. Chutney and I decided to skip
the nuclear stress test and go right to the Cath. On the weekend,
while she was away her boss, Dr. Bulk, came in and said he had looked
at my X-rays and charts and that Chutney was wrong. He would give me
the stress test on Sunday and I could go home. I was concerned about
his telling me that Chutney was wrong, a foolish way to phrase it to
the patient. After he left my hospital bed I thought of several
questions I needed to ask him before I could go along with his
approach. I sent word to him 3 times and he refused to talk to me; the
last time he was on the phone with my nurse while she was in my room
and he still refused to talk to me until tomorrow. This was weird
behavior, so I complained to the patient advocate and got Bulk in a
lot of trouble. Asshole. One of the jokes I told that was popular was this: A patient walks
into his doctor’e office at 5 PM and asks “Doc, what are the results
of the test?” Doc said ”I have some dreadful news for you and maybe
even worse news. You only have 24 hours to live!” “Oh my God, what
could possibly be worse than that?” Doc said “I’ve been trying to
reach you all day!” I’mm home now but I have to go back in for another cath to remove the
rest of the blockage, In the meantime, herbgart’s incite site will get
back to normal.