Sept 28

A full stress test is pretty much a big happening! Overall, the ordeal.....err I mean the procedure took about four hours. Ended hot and sweaty and not knowing anything. The major contributor to the fast heartbeat and heated body would be the speedy walk on the treadmill but I think that shut up in a room with three attentive good looking females, one with her hand on my back, helped to speed the heartbeat to the wanted 128 bpm. Actually it went higher than that but 128 was the goal. At 128 one of the ladies injected another dose of the radioactive material into my bloodstream through my IV.

One of the first happening was going to the second floor for the insertion of the IV and the first injection of the radioactive material. I told the girl delivering the stuff that it had caused the metal in my partial plate to get hot. That seemed to puzzle her and the other attending lady for a minute so I quickly admitted to joking.

Next thing I was sent into a machine to get a picture of my heart which took 20 minutes of laying very still with my arms up over my head. Man, that begin to hurt long before the 20 minutes were up.

Anyway, from there to the treadmill located on the first floor then a quick, first of the day, bite of food and a glass of water. After which, back up to the second floor for another 20 minute picture then back to the first floor for an echogram or whatever.

For some reason, and I can't blame the small hamburger that I had, my body developed, what could have been an embarrassing load of gas. I was able to control the area that it was allowed to escape but after we left the hospital the place was locked down.

We found out later that it wasn't locked down due to my sneaky gas releases but because of the admittance of a lady that was the victim of an attempted murder. Some feared the murderer would come to finish the act. He had also killed three others during the attempt on this lady. All happened near Holt Summit.

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