There's a local for-profit hospital here that has all private rooms, and
advertises that "The last thing you want when you're sick is a roommate!"
There's speculation that the new privacy laws will mean all hospitals will
soon be that way.
Bill Pearce
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From: "Bob Whitmire" <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 3:16 PM
Subject: [OM] (OT) Down the rabbit hold
> Well, this past Saturday morning, like Alice, I tumbled down the
> rabbit hole. Chest pains, sweats and such. Doc said go to the ER. Off
> I went. Tests at local hospital didn't show anything conclusive, but
> the hospitalist told me I should stay in the hospital until Monday
> morning and then do a stress test. Come Monday morning I did the new
> and improved nuclear medicine stress test, and apparently passed with
> flying colors. Proud to say, I went the distance, nothing obvious
> showed up, and the doc said I had the exercise capacity of a health 60-
> year-old man. WoooHooo!
>
> However (you knew that was coming, didn't you).
>
> The stress test results are sent to cardiology at Maine Med in
> Portland, which apparently is one of the country's top heart
> hospitals. The hospitalist showed up in my room to tell me they "found
> something" that appeared to be an occlusion in the lower quadrant of
> the heart. The cardiologist's best guess was a 70 percent chance of
> blockage. Most of you know what that means: cardiac catheterization.
>
> That damned rabbit hole got deep quickly. Before dark I was in an
> ambulance headed for Maine Med.
>
> Cardiac unit, Maine Med. Cardiologist came around to talk about the
> procedure, scheduled for noon Tuesday. He said based on his reading he
> was not really expecting to find anything. Turns out stress tests are
> highly reliable if they're normal, but not so much if they are
> abnormal. Too much stuff in the body to occlude the images. So,
> despite having a roommate from Hell (too long a story to tell here), I
> survived until Tuesday. Note they didn't let me eat anything from
> supper Monday night at Miles until a very late lunch on Tuesday at
> Maine Med.
>
> The procedure was a breeze. Very cool. Some of you may already have
> had it done. I was fully conscious. While I was still on the table,
> the cardiologist stuck his head around the camera and told me he hoped
> his own heart looked as good. So they cut me loose after making me lie
> on my back for four hours. Right after the procedure, a nurse had to
> apply pressure to the entry site (the groin) for about twenty minutes.
> Hard pressure. I told her I hoped they were paying her a lot of money.
>
> I couldn't tell whether the camera they used was an Olympus.
>
> So now I'm back in place, with orders to take it easy for a few days.
>
> That shouldn't be hard.
>
> --Bob Whitmire
> www.bobwhitmire.com
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