I also had a doctor's appointment today. (That's where I was when I missed the call on my cell phone.)
I have battled high blood pressure for many years but lately my heart rate has been high too, even at rest. The doctor had put me on some other medicine for my b.p. and it was helping but I was getting too many other side effects and I asked him to switch me back to what I had been taking. Well, now he wants me to go for a chest x-ray, a pulmonary function test and see a cardiologist to rule out an underlying problem. It really hit me when he was saying all this....pulmonary....cardiologist! Those are some big, seriuos words and I don't even want to think those things. My mom died of emphysema and I know what that is like! And my dad died of lung cancer, which was found on a routine chest x-ray. I go for the pulmonary function test and chest x-ray Thursday but don't know yet when I'll get in with the cardiologist. Please keep me in your prayers! I'm really scared.