Today's test are over

Today I had a lung function test and an echo stress test on my heart. These are both pre-screening tests for surgery, I guess. The lung test was a little weird. I sat in this enclosed booth type thing and either blew into or panted or sucked this hose thing. The tech would shout instructions to me. At one point I had to do the same thing all over again with my hands on my cheeks. She told me from this test they determine if I need any kind of treatment before surgery -- like antibiotics, an inhaler, or whatever. The other was a chemically induced echo stress test. So instead of making me run on a treadmill and looking at my heart they give you an IV drug that makes your heart race, and they look at that compared to the baseline (done before the drug). The was a doctor there -- a resident I think -- an he said he saw no blockages and my heart looked fine. Some other doc will review it again, but I am not expecting any surprises there thank goodness.

I still have no news on the PET scan. I did call the surgeon's office (lung) since they had not called me about a surgery date. The secretary told me she thought it was the 15th (Thurs) but they had not set it up yet. I assume that means they had not scheduled with the OR, anesthesia, etc. I am somewhat disappointed with that date since that is exactly one week before Thanksgiving. If I am in the hospital for 5 days, I would be getting out the day we were going to leave for Destin - Tuesday most likely. I don't think we will feel like going anywhere! Of course being a Brit, Thanksgiving is not a big holiday for Bob anyway. While I really wanted to have this a little earlier, it does give me more time to get healthier and get some things done. Maybe my leg wound -- which looks better every day -- will be healed by then too. And we will have a restfull Thanksgiving weekend to get better and may be able to get some work done the following week after the holiday. Not what I had planned, but things just change all the time. Heaven knows I am trying to learn to adapt and be more flexible.