Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Test Results

Hi everyone and welcome to my humble little hovel. Well in the past two weeks I have gone through three medical tests. They were not bad tests 2 were easy the third easy except for the prep work the day before.
Well let me get the first test out of the way. That was the one I did this morning. The colonoscopy went great no signs of trouble and doc said to jsut come back in five years for another. YEA!
The second and third test were done last tuesday. The First test was the eckocardiogram. The news on that was there was no issues in fact nothing has changed in the two years since I had my last one so I guess I get taht one in another 2 years. Another, "YEA!"
Thje third test took a little longer. It was right after the echo. They hooked my up with five monitering patches with wired and I had to wear for 24 hours a Holter (or portable EKG machine. It is not the most comfortable thing to wear but oh well I managed to live with it. I did my normal routine around the house and going to work out. Was afraid that when I was sweating the patches would fall off but the held on real good. I guess it is some kind of sticky stuff that is just a step below superglue becuase I was able to remove it from myself with little or no pain a all. The results from this test were there have been changes since two years ago. I guess my heart is slowing down with age. befoer we I had these tests my Cardio Doc was talking about me maybe switching to one year apart visits but when the relutls for the second test came back she decided 6 months would be a better idea. I guess compared tot he one I took two years ago there was enough of a difference to warrent this action. To give you an idea the normal resting heart rate for most people is between 55 and 60. Well I guess mine averaged about 42 and there have been a few times it dipped below 40. When I was doing the Echo it dropped to 39 twice and this morning at my other test they clocked a 38 at one point.
There is good news from this. I do not feignt or get dizzy spells so that is good news. I know I do get tired. You all have seen how quick I can dose anytime anywhere. but somewhere down the line I will need a pace maker. It is no longer a metter of if, but when.
Lisa is Happy she is back to working her 20 hors per week and today she started her new time change which is 12 pm to 4 pm. She likes that better. Enjoy

Friday, September 12, 2008

How small the world really is.

Today was fun at work. I was doing my Ambassador duties with training. I had six people I was working with. One of the persons I trained was from an Island in Micronesia called Yap, google the Island if you are curious. Now we already have one person at work who is from there and that is a guy named Lawrence. I guess he let his friend Thomas know that Amazon was looking for temp employees. But the amazing thing is that Thomas is the third person I have met from the Island of Yap. The second was Lawrence and the First was a guy named John who worked at Amazon about 4 years ago. Lawrence kind of knows him but not too well.
I think I already mentioned some of the other people I have met at work from various corners of the globe. Places like El Salvador, Lithuania, Russia, Romania just to name a few. My best friend Eusabio is one of the ones from El Salvador. We have worked together for 4 years at least. Well one of his brothers came in and Eusabio introduced me to him. Well because I know a few phrases and can put a few sentences together I introduced myself in Spanish and was his ambassador also so the other day Edwardo asked me if I was from South America somewhere. He said I did not have the usual American Spanish accent. I laugh because I have been pegged as being from Mexico based on the accent I can put on my Spanish when I can speak a full sentence or two by a gal who was from Guatemala. I will never consider myself fluent but I guess I do well enough.