Day Two at the Hospital

The night shift nurse told me she was going to have me moved to a room with a more comfortable bed. The room I was in had a bed that was permanently in an upright position. It also only had a curtain that acted as the front door. I was able to sleep in the bed. It was not comfortable. The next shift nurse can and wheel chaired me to a room with a door.

The nurse showed me how to recline the bed. That was nice. However I got hooked up to a machine. The machine beeped a lot during the night. It was hit and miss for sleeping. Eventually I got cold and put the blanket they gave me on. Nurses kept checking on me through the morning. One nurse can and took me to the stress test room.

Before I got on this industrial strength treadmill, they wanted me to sign some legal consent forms. I was like WTF are they going to do to me. I have heard horror stories about the stress tests. So I talked with the chief doctor in the room to make sure I was allowed to quick the treadmill if I wanted to.

There turned out to be no need for alarm. They made the treadmill go fast. And they made it incline sharply. But it was nothing I had not done myself exercising in my basement. I told the doctor that my chest actually hurt less when I was running on the treadmill. It was over quick. Doc told me he just needed my heart working a little harder for him to monitor my vitals. Whew.

They prescribed some drugs for me. The first dose was shot into my arm. It is supposed to relax something in my body. I picked up the rest of the pills in the pharmacy they had in the hospital. They scheduled a follow up appointment with my primary care specialist. Let's hope these drugs do the trick. They are not sure if they will. They were just confident that my heart was okay.