Mom and her doctors visit.

I didn't sleep well the night before because I worry over this day. This is the one doctors visit my Mom insists I go with her. The whole time she went through her breast cancer and colon cancer she wouldn't let anyone go with her. She even did her treatments for her breast cancer on her own. She insisted that all they were doing was taking a very strong picture of her body and there was no need for the whole family to attend that. Why she wants me to go with her to the heart doctor is beyond me, not that I mind going. But I think maybe that I get as stressed out about the visit as she does. She claims she cant understand the doctor and needs me to translate. It not like hes speaking Spanish, hes Asian.

While we sat and waited for him to come in she you could see her fidget about with her gown, so I would quietly talk to her and tell her the funny things that the guys would do out in the field or saw. This would keep her mind semi off what is about to happen and calm her nerves a bit. Of course her blood pressure was slightly up, which she quickly told the girl that her regular physician has just taken it and it was running on the normal side. I added that shes nervous and the girl grinned and seemed to understand.

A few minutes later the doc walked in, asked her a few minor questions and looked at her EKG. One question he asked her is if she had any pain and she said “no”. She also has one of those glycerin pills she can place under tongue if needed. What bothered me is later on the way out after he patted her on the back and said “see you next year” she mentioned that she does have pain in her chest but not enough to take a pill. Most of the time its if she moves quickly for a long period of time. Part of me wanted to make her turn around and tell him and another didn't. I think she feels if she did tell him then next procedure would be an angioplasty which she really doesn't want to go through or even worse a full bypass. Its not that shes old or over weight but the trauma shes put her body through that's given her this heart condition.
I guess we will have to continue to walk more but slowly and keep eating the salads for lunch on that day.