How Far Can You Go...

Well, today was the first day I was going to venture out again to do all the stuff I need to get done. I was feeling better and stuff needed to get done. It happened to snow and freeze last night and I was woken up Pam coming home for 'lunch, at 8:30AM to get her glasses. She said she couldn't get the Lincoln up the driveway because of the ice and snow and left. I hadn't gotten much sleep last night and was groggy from the event, but got up and it was ice and snow all around.

I got up and got dressed and got the Lincoln snow stud tires down from the real high shelf in the garage and loaded them up in the Jeep. I first went to the printers with the new, and improved, 7" X 7" version of the needle instructions and then went to Costco to see about getting the snow tires put on the Lincoln. They had a wait, so I parked the Jeep at Costco and walked over to Dell to get the Lincoln, so Costco could install the snow tires.

So, on the long walk to Dell, about 2 blocks on flat ground, I started having serious feeling of exhaustion in my left thigh. It was like I had run a couple of hard miles or something. The weird part about it was that I wasn't breathing hard, or was any other parts of my body even warmed up yet. I finally got to the car and got in and drove the two blocks back to Costco. Then I had to go get the 4 unmounted tires out of the Jeep, which I almost couldn't do - because of my left thigh.

I was a little freaked out because I knew what was probably going on. I seemed to be feeling ok, except for my leg. So, after a rest in the car, I went to a local restaurant to have some lunch - around people, to see how it was all going. I had lunch and all seemed quite normal again.

I left for the printers to pick up my stuff, and while there called the Dr. that just did my surgery and they said to come right in. I went to their office and was brought right in for an hour checkup and analysis. Then, I had to go straight to the Emergency Room, again, to be sent to the Cardo-vascular Lab for some tests. I spent the next two hours there doing all sorts of testing and was finally released.

The nurse called tonight and I have to go to a MRI or cat scan Wednesday at 1pm.

So, what is going on, unless I am way off here, is that the leg of the little designer pants stent that the put in during my operation less than two weeks ago, is somehow blocking the flow of blood to my left leg. If I go up a flight of stairs or something crazy like that, my left leg is starving for blood/oxygen because the blood is being blocked by this stent.

Again, unless I am way off here, the Dr. is doing the MRI to try and figure out what their options are - if they can fix the stent through my left artery, or worse yet, will have to go in, like before stents, and I will be in the hospital for a couple of weeks.

So, either way, I guess I am spending my birthday and Christmas in the hospital or close to it. I am not a happy camper here at all...