Bustednuckles

This one with the Cardiologist that I have been waiting on since about freaking April.

So far, so good, I have avoided getting the old Uninvited Finger In The Ass up to this point so there’s that.

Adjusted the medications, right after my main Doc did last week. I swear these people don’t communicate with each other even though my medical history is right there in front of them.

Wants me to start taking aspirin, buy a blood pressure testing collar and start keeping an eye on it.

I made the mistake of walking up the stairs instead of taking the elevator on the way in and they freaked out when they checked my blood pressure. 172/80 thereabouts.

They checked it again right before I left and it was still high at 150/70 but at my regular Doc the other day their electronic tester showed 150/70 and I told them that it was wrong. They went and got the old manual cuff and it showed 132/70.

Yeah, OK.

Still taking BP pills every day, waiting to see if they play with that.

After a whole bunch of messing around, the Cardiologist going so far as to draw pictures on a scratch pad to show me what’s going on, I basically told him that I was tired of the screwing around here.

I originally went to the doctor about this in April. This is July and none of them has done jack shit except schedule tests and play with the medications.

I flat out said to him that you know what the problem is and you know where it is.

FIX IT and quit screwing around because I am tired of the games.

So supposedly I finally got through to him, he wants to schedule a Cat Scan to show exactly where the clogs are and how big they are. Then he also supposedly scheduled an appointment with the Vascular Surgeons.
Apparently the major issue is that besides both Femoral arteries being completely plugged, there is a smaller artery not too far below where the Aorta splits off into each leg that snakes around to the butt cheeks, The one on the right side is also plugged and that one may require actual surgery because it takes off at a hard ninety degrees.

We shall see.

Something kinda weird I found out, because this has been going on for quite some time and because what I do for a living generally requires a shit load of walking, my body has grown brand new, smaller arteries that bypass the clogs, trying to fix its self.

I had no idea that was even possible.

So there ya go, now you know about as much as I do, which ain’t much.