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‘The treadmill test is just a
walk in the park,’ the doctor had said, ‘ a mere formality. There is nothing
wrong with your heart’… well that wasn’t that reassuring because I had been
referred to the Cardio unit at Greenlane by my GP because I’d gone to him
complaining of shortness of breath when I’d been out walking in the park… then
six minutes into the treadmill test the technicians had stopped it told me I’d
better lie down and called the Doctor to come in urgently… That was the
beginning of quite a week in the Carter family’s life.
A phone call on Tuesday then
into hospital on Wednesday for an Angiogram, informed that,” yes there is
nothing wrong with my heart, it’s just the plumbing round it is blocked up.”
Told I was in the grey area between fixing it with Stents and a bypass
operation, they’d get back to me on that one. Then Kris went to the doctor on
Friday, and ended up in hospital overnight with various tests being run. In the
end they could find nothing wrong with her, her heart was 3% bigger than the
average. “So they put us through that to tell us our Mum has a big heart, we
could have told them that”, say the kids. Still it is good to know Kris is OK.
But in the midst of this we
have felt the presence of God: Shown
through the prayers and care of our church family at St Peter’s (thanks). Shown
through a great GP, who is a good Christian man and the provision of a public
health system, full of excellent doctors and medical staff. People emailing me
and when I’ve told them what has been going on they have said, no wonder you’ve
been on our heart so much this week.
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