Judy Redlich

Recently I had to take a stress test. I chose to do the tread mill version. With that version, they hook you up to the EKG machine; Then they take your blood pressure before, several times during the test, and immediately after the test. The test on the tread mill is about 8 minutes, I guess, and they start you slow, and speed you up several times. Those of you more medically minded, please excuse my primitive explanation.
Anyway, when the test was over, they said they saw something that would require me to take the test again, the next time with them taking pictures of my heart before and after. I groaned, not about taking another stress test but trying to get transportation to come back on a different day. So I ask the all important question--can you just give me another stress test today? They had a slot open in an hour, they said, and got on the phone to get my doctor's clearance, insurance approval, etc. In an hour they told me the details had been worked out. So they hooked me up, took the pictures of my heart, etc. and I did another stress test on the tread mill. Surprising enough, I felt very invigorated wen the whole ordeal was over. The technician assisting me said she had never known of anyone having two stress tests in one day. "Well," I told her; "thank you for working this out. It would have been much more stress on me to get the additional transportation to get here and back again than to go through the stress of a 2nd stress test the same day.
The best news of all this interesting stress is that I went back to work knowing I had passed two stress tests, and the 2nd one showed no heart complecations. That afternoon at work was a very productive one.