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My Leg Ultra Sound Report

It has been sometime now that I got back my report on my leg ultra sound. They were looking for artery obstruction. It's just that I got so busy with my books that I never bothered to mention it in a blog here.

Well, I got the good news and I got the not so good news. Good news being that I did not have any 'tightened' areas in my legs-arteries. Therefore I did not have to have any surgery.

The not so good news is that I have hardening of the arteries in my legs. The medical term for this is atherosclerosis. It means that I am at high risk of forming
a thrombus in a coronary artery. My legs were blocked 50% all the way down!

I can tell you I did not take this news lightly. My dr. understood how I was feeling about the news and he did hand me a kleenex. He's a nice guy. He put me on a blood thinner to help prevent any blood clotting.

Of course I am watching my diet even closer now. We are starting to eat fish more.I am cutting out the cheese almost entirely. I say almost because I have cut way back on it...but did have very little on a sandwich. That is a hard one for me as I love cheese!


I have begun the Chantix non smoking program that my dr. chose for me. It seems to be working fine with me so far. I am determined to make it work!

It's a matter of life or death to me now.

I need to walk more , however nasty the weather is outside.

I'm considering buying a treadmill type piece of equipment. I have not researched that one as yet.

I go back to my dr. May 21st. he will schedule me for a heart scan after that.

I told him that I had had a heart cath done about 15 years ago. At that time I was having chest pains and packing a two year old grandson on my hip while his Mom attended classes five days a week. The heart cath showed that the veins in my heart did not grow to the bottom of my heart as is normal. I was experiencing ischemia I was told.

So stupid me- I continued to smoke cigarettes. I had the no fear back then.

I have the fear now...finally. You might say I am a slow learner. Of course I already knew that something was wrong there...long before that. You just sense those things.

I always knew that I was not normal.

I am not looking forward to this heart scan.

At least our weather is improving somewhat