More Cardiac clearance news:

Today, I went to the diagnostic center that is approved by my insurance to pick up beta blockers that I was told I would need to take the day before the cat scan. I thought the cat scan was going to be tomorrow. No no no, They have reserved an appt. for me for Monday at 9:00 a.m., but I should be there by 8:00 a.m. The center is 14 miles from my house, but it's 14 miles on busy roads including a new road to crossover from the cross-town expressway to one interstate that leads to another interstate. I can drive, but I don't love to drive. I do it because it's necessary.

The nurse said that the scan will be done on Monday as long as the Cardiologist's nurse alerts the insurance company about it and an approval is given to Tower (the diagnostic center). There was already an approval, but it has already expired. I don't think the cardiologist's office likes me very much because they set the scan up at a hospital that I don't like and I already have a balance with. They think I should just do what I'm told to do and I've never been that girl. I arranged for the scan to be done at Tower in Brandon because they have done my prior x-rays ad an MRI and a couple of mammograms. I'll just breathe and pray that this is all worked out by Friday so that Tower knows it's okay.

I never got the Beta blockers because my heart rate was at 51 and you don't need beta blockers unless your heart rate is over 100. She said they would check it again Monday morning and if my heart rate is up, they'll give me the beta blockers and I can take them and go have Breakfast and then come back. This is how my pre-op testing has gone. It's never what they say it's going to be.