is a happy heart!

I had my follow up today. It was good. Everything looks like it should. The heart is pumping like it should, my oxygen and blood pressure were good. So the medication seems to be working in that department. I have a little trouble sleeping at night. The doc says that my be due to some of my sinus issues and my pulmonary hypertension. That makes sense. He said the short explanation of what happened was that I did have spasms. Which leads to a heart attack. Explaining my symptoms. Coronary Angima? I think it's called. I am not sure I'm spelling that right. Everything shy of full blown heart attack except that I had no blockage but everything else was the same. What happens is you get a calcium build up. He said your body produces calcium (not like milk calcium, like we think of calcium but a different kind of calcium) and that's what stops the blood flow and loss of oxygen to a certain part of the heart. Causing the spams/ heart attack. When the spasms are severe like mine where it can lead to the heart attack. The good news is that there is some damage but they think that some of it may be scar tissue and some of what happened from the attack. He wasn't totally clear on that. It may stay that way. But everything is functioning normally.

I will keep taking the calcium blocker medication and have the nitro patches as needed. I was very relieved about that. I didn't like the nitro stuff AT all! Even though it stopped the pain. The head ache was yucky too, but I guess I'd rather have that then the heart attack! So I just keep a patch with me. I am relieved. I can for the most part resume my normal activties. I will take it slow -don't worry. I am not walking home in the heat now and Carl and I are going to work on my driving more. So there is a lot we need to change. Being more cautious and not overdoing it. Everyone can learn to pace themselves and learn when to slow down and take a break. It's easy to get going during the day - but it's also really important to teach ourselves how to relax!