"Chatting" For Hearts

Libby, I'm in Central Tx. ~it's been our usual start of the heat and drought days. lol We had a fair here locally, and I heard the flight for life came and left 3 times-I'm sure it was due to the heat. Just standing out there, a person could have sweat to death! I didn't go as I knew I wouldn't have handled it well. My daughter went~had loads of fun, got the guitar pic from one of the band members that was there. lol (We know the Mom). :) My son's semi-pro softball team came in 2nd place and he got the award for home run champion, plus made 'All Tournament Team'-so he was pretty happy, sweating and all! :) My littlest bird is leaving tomorrow for the pet store. I hate parting with any of them, but I have 4 more to pull from the nest this week and start feeding, so it's for the best...I really don't have enough room either. lol
What animals do you have again? We have the birds (cockatiels) 2 dogs, Samantha (Sam) a golden retriever, and Shellie, my daughter's flat coated Lab mix from the local pound, along with a 75 gal. fish tank. Hugs, Teri :)

high today 92 and with heat indexwill feel like 105 stay in from 10-4 they are telling people. Please oh please   don't let it be this hot on June 18th from 9-12 for our big Cert drill at he fire academy not a shade tree in site where we will be and fighting fires with old airplane fuel from the navy bases that is hot and stinks too. I hope it is cool then after noon time gets hot as hades pardon my expression.

I would also think gallbladder and maybe pancrese my friend had that rouble and it was oancreatitis and lok into gallbladder they poke and proded mine and did ultrasound but nithing but when my gas aoccurs I try to remmebr what i eat I know onions can do it to me sometimes or to much tomatoe sauce and some cerrtain spices too But good luck. hey Teri any Doc appoinments for yu this week? i am lucky none till July I hope I get  treadmill, thyroid ultrasound, then blood again and my mammogram in June. and get the results July25th get allthe tests done July 11th.

You all take care in taxas and try to stay cool like I am in Sunny hot and humid florida.

Heidi

hi my ladies!

thanks for all your thoughts.  yup, i've had gallbladder out.

the burning and pain was so bad last night (11 p.m. - 3 a.m.) i thought i was ER-bound, but i took all the drugs in my arsenal, got good and stoned and felt better and read until 4:30 then slept on and off 'til nearly noon.  i've waked up with the usual burning.  even water doesn't seem to help or go down well.  sigh.  i need to make it FOUR MORE DAYS!  today, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, then friday a.m. is my test.  i'm not sure how i'm going to last that long if this doesn't let up.  i just stopped my plavix this weekend, which is the whole reason they won't do the test before.  any thoughts anyone has, i am QUITE open to hearing them!

meanwhile, hope you all are having a good monday.  yes, teri, you're right, it's nice to hear from everyone on a monday morning!  i'm just glad to be home at my computer...

libby

sleepless night so i yhought i would say good morning early have a very nice day and semper fi to all marines out there

Barb, how are you doing??

Libby, how is your pain? Do you have it under control with the pain med.'s?!

Hello to all of ya'll and I wish you'd all pop in and let us know how you're doing!!

Hugs, Teri :)

Hi jacton!! :)

Your arteries are spasming so it's difficult to get oxygen through to the heart when that happens as you know! That's why you need the O2 more of course.

When you say an artery replaced? I've had a triple bypass and they replaced 3 of main coronary arteries, but it's only because they were blocked. One about 100%. I was 52 when that was done in Aug. and I'm now 53, jacton. So we're close in age. I remember, I think asking you this already, but I don't remember your answer. Do you smoke?? If you do and your arteries are not blocked, but spasming, they wouldn't want to do a bypass. That's a serious surgery used only as a last resort. Are you using nitrates and other med.'s like Beta Blockers, or Calcium Channel blockers to help keep the arteries from spasming and keep them widened? Let me know, okay?? Hugs, Teri :)

Libby, you've made it this far, I hope you get through the next couple of days!! :) My best wishes for that!! Remember have D. post for you if he would in case they keep you! I brought the little cockatiel (all yellow) into the pet store where I volunteer the other day...every time I walked by him, he tweeted at me-heartbreaking! But I just can't keep them all. I pulled 2 of the 4 that are in the nest now and just started hand feeding them tonight. :) The other 2 were born almost 5 days after these, so I'll wait to pull them. They are just the sweetest little things...I've been having this really terrible thirst and have been drinking water like crazy lately, in particular today...I looked up my new inhalor and it says it can cause this, plus I have Diabetes. Golly, I'm really getting tired of going to see Dr.'s. Really, I am! I can't even see the pulmonologist that put me on the stuff, and I don't have enough, so I'll be going off it anyway, figured tonight was as good as any. He doesn't accept any of my insurance and we carry 2 of them!! Tricare is a standard around this area, we live by an Army base and Mark is retired Army, but this guy won't accept Tricare-go figure. The other one he does accept but I have to pay 30% and at his prices-I'll be selling our home soon!! You know that is ridiculous. But that's a whole new gripe! lol As Ray says, DGMS (don't get me started!) haha

Libby, I'll be hoping you can get through the next couple of days safely and without too much pain!! Did your Dr. even give you a hint at what he thought this was? Have you had an endoscopy before and gotten checked for GERD and Barrett's? I'm rambling now :) ...but I have both and I was told a year ago that I had mild dysplasia as well. So I was very scared about having cancer and when they did my endoscopy this year?-the dysplasia was gone!-Kaput! So I hope it's something that they can just adjust your med.'s?, or hurry up and fix whatever's wrong! You've got my email, and you can email me anytime you'd like!!

Hugs, Teri :)

Hi bc! :) What's the new med.?? Hugs, Teri :)

to post one additional strange item tonight:

is anyone else on ambien?  i keep thinking it's my imagination, but i take one every couple of nights, and about 20 minutes after i take it - that's the best i've felt all day!  i wish i could take it during the day, but it eventually does it's trick and makes me sleep.  just wondered if anyone else has experienced this wonderful "side effect."  sometimes i can be in the worse pain, and the ambien just helps ease it.  i'm sure that's the drugs relaxing properties, not much magic there, but i wish oh how i wish there was a daytime ambien! 

All this talk about sleep is making me tired. I had to work last night and all day today. Got a nap in at work though. 2hours and 20min to go until I can go home a crash for a few hours at least until we go out with friends. So busy getting ready for camping and then my daughters graduation next Thursday. I also get my scope done next Thursday at 12 noon. Hope it's nothing too bad. Talk to you all later maybe if time permits. Barb

hey barb,

i'm going first - having my endoscopy this friday.  i'm pretty

nervous, but also feel i have no choice, that i must have it

NOW.  i haven't eaten solid food in over 8 days.  so it's the

endoscopy or starvation - what a lovely choice!

i'll letcha know how it goes -

hope you get some rest,

libby

Good luck, Libby!!! My thoughts and prayers are with you!! I really hope all goes well for you and they find out what is causing you all this pain and discomfort! Please post or have D. post??, so we know how you're doing?!

Best wishes and (((Libby))), Hugs, Teri :)

hi all,

well, i'm on for my endoscopy in about 10 hours.  i've had so many

many surgeries, multiple procedures, many of them so very serious,

and i know this is just a little ole diagnostic tool, but nonetheless

i'm pretty nervous and therefore up late not sleeping!  bear with me -

i will let you know barb, how it goes so that maybe that will give you

some reassurance.  i have so little concern about this procedure

itself, that is, like you i feel if i'm plenty stoned out i won't care or

even know what's going on.  and it's a pretty short procedure, but

my doc said to expected 3-4 hours in recovery.  i wake up quite

slowly from just about all anesthetic, nauseated for quite a while.

once they cut the narcotics off i wake up quickly, quit vomiting,

am ready to leap up and go home! 

i'm mostly worried tommorrow about this, all my forum friends:  i've

been off almost all my heart meds for 5 days, gastro guy wouldn't

do the procedure without my doing that.  so that's made me a bit

nervous.  and i know what that means, surgerically:  it means that

off my blood thinners that i need to be able to clot a bit better,

which also means that those little buggers that can cause trouble

OR help might cause trouble.  and if i'm knicked at all and it causes

undue bleeding i'd be in a bit of trouble too.

so i guess it makes no sense - i'm not worried about the procedure -

but i am worried about this blood clotting factor. 

i will be glad to be leaving DALLAS tomorrow afternoon, where i'm

having the procedure and heading west back to little ole foat worth.

if all the timing goes right, i should be leaving dallas at 5 p.m. on

a friday afternoon, lovely! 

meanwhile, i will say TGIF to all of you, hope you feel your best this weekend,

rest, enjoy family, and as soon as i come back to consciousness and keyboard

i'll letcha know how it went.  i'm determined to give barb a good report!

many thanks for all your prayers and hugs!  they do mean so much.

xo's,

libby