Well it has been a while since I have written. A lot has happened, my daughter got married in June in Cedar Rapids, IA. My stepson got married in East Lansing, MI in August and my stepdaughter got married in Honolulu, HI in October. So needless to say this year has been kind of a blur. Things have been going fairly well with my CML. I have a new oncologist Dr Talpaz who is one of the best in the world dealing with CML. I am thrilled to be able to have such a brilliant doctor as my oncologist, just in case in the future I may need to put his brain to use to keep me on the level.
Now for the bump, in Dec I had my yearly physical with my new family Dr. who happens to be an internist. He found a heart murmur which he said was slight and referred me to a cardiologist to have an echo done and get things checked out. Well I went for the echo and the tech said everything looked ok and my heart looked "strong and healthy". So when I went for the followup with the Dr. he asked a bunch of questions and I found out he was an oncologist in India before moving to the US to become a cardiologist. This put me at ease, until my 15 minute appointment turned into about 45. He kept listing to my heart and moving the stethoscope very small movements on a lot of different areas. He said well..... you don't have a heart murmur but you do have high blood pressure on one side of my body and low to normal on the other. He checked my blood pressure about a dozen times and kept getting the same results. He even let me listen to the strange noise my blood is making as it goes thorough my arteries (which he feels is the noise my blood is making going through the constricted arteries). He suspects a narrowing of my arteries or small arteries, so he had me come in the next day for an echo of my coronary arteries. The tech said they looked ok, just a small build up of plaque on one side but not enough that would cause the different bp on each side of me. So she paged the doctor and he wants to see me in a couple of weeks to "discuss getting a CT scan of my heart" to see what the real issue may be.
Well I hate to wait, I really hate to wait.... Everything in the world is going through my mind. My dad had high BP and I have 3 male cousins that have died relatively young with heart problems and my uncle on my Dad's side who has needed a heart transplant in his late 50's. Well I just don't know what to think. I really don't want to take another med with possible side effects and deal with all of that. However I do feel a little at ease that my cardiologist used to be an oncologist so he can check any drug interactions and possible problems. However here I am wait and see again... Did I mention I really hate to wait!!!
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