Much ado about little. I had the TEE (Trans-Esophygeal-Echo cardiogram) on Wed. Most of the 5 hrs was spent waiting for the doc to do the damn thing. As I figured, having experienced a number of upper GI endoscopies, this was little different. I have misled you all earlier by speaking of a camera taking pix: actually it was ultrasound. But they still take pictures, I believe. In any case the entire procedure was about 20 min of the 5 hrs.
The result is that I have mild to moderate aortic valve stenosis. And they only R and R the aortic valve if the stenosis is severe. So then they had to decide which team there in the Heart Institute was going to continue to monitor me--structural or heart failure--and the heart failure group won (?). I am scheduled with them for a 2-month follow up.
I am ambivalent. On the one hand I thought that a new aortic valve might make me feel better; on the other hand I have to continue to manage myself in such a way that I feel better--and I am not sure how to go about that. I have tried recently to exercise and to walk but they don't together seem to do much but make me weaker.
Is it possible that I am simply in the waiting period? end of an era? end of life? don't call us, we'll call you? etc ad nauseum? Well, except intellectually, I am not going to worry about all of that.
Instead, it is a gorgeous morning, and I am going to go for a walk....
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