Wednesday October 29...1:00 pm

Whew! The stress test was not nearly as stressful as the stress of anticipating the stress test! It appears to have all gone smoothly. Now we wait for Monday when we get results from the cardiologist. Meanwhile, we met with Robert's primary care physician yesterday to talk over many things. The most important being the "bridging" to be done before his biopsy. (I may go for my nursing degree by the time we get through this...I've learned so many new medical words!) In order to have the biopsy done, the risk of bleeding must be diminished by bridging with a different drug than he is currently taking. I'm not sure there is an actual bridge, or that Robert goes across a bridge, or that any bridges will ever be seen during this process, but that is what they call it! And that process from start to finish takes at least 2 weeks, because after he is "bridged", he has to get "unbridged". That will affect his return to work, because the Dr. says he can't go back to work until he is completely re-stabilized - does that mean the bridge is unstable? Any way you look at it, it is complicated. I haven't even mentioned the scary high blood pressure, the unusually high weight gain, the scan report, or the vena cava filter. I feel sorry for his primary care physician - by the time we left him I thought we should give him a tip because we made his head spin.
Speaking of scan report, we will get one tomorrow when we go to see the surgeon. All our primary care physician could tell us was that it is unchanged. We are not real clear on what is unchanged, so hopefully tomorrow we will find out.
Rosanna let us know yesterday that she has started a blog of her adventures. You can find it at livingwithsteadfasthope.blogspot.com
Robert is resting right now after his tiring workout with physical therapy in the pool. He said he doubled some of his repetitions. He still notices the left side is weaker than the right...hmmm. Not sure why.

~Jeanette