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[QUOTE]Originally posted by WizArtist II: [QB] Today.....is a LOVELY day.... Let me do a "LOTR" style prehistory... about 6 weeks ago I went to our local walk-in clinic with a lump under my left armpit and a weird feeling in my left arm. Now of course being 6'2 and 390 pounds my first thought was that this wasn't going to be good. A trip on to WebMD didn't help my thought processes when all it kept coming up with was lymphoma. So I see the doctor who tells me it is an abscess and its pinching a nerve in my arm. An injection followed by a prescription of antibiotics and in two weeks it was gone. Then there's this last two weeks....the ones where everything is due, my boss is in the Carribean for a cruise and I'm taking up the load for another project manager who has been off after three successive back surgeries for the last 13 months. To say that I have been stressed is a gross understatement. Then my arm started getting this numb feeling again, a tingle, and feeling like you just need to shake it out or pop it. This coupled with a tightness in my chest and sharp shooting pains in my left side did not brighten my view. So I go to a walk-in clinic. I tell them how I'm feeling. They immediately do an EKG. Then they tell me to go to the Emergency Room NOW and that they are calling ahead to get me in ASAP. AND they tell my wife that she has to drive. Considering that her father died three weeks ago of a heart attack out of the blue you can imagine how she was doing. So we get to the hospital and I sit in the waiting room for an hour. They finally put me in a room and start whipping up the tests. They do an EKG of their own, then come back because two of the leads were hooked up wrong. They take blood and check for cardial enzymes. They take Xrays. They do a CT scan. SIX Hours I'm in the ER. Then they come back and tell me that ALL my tests are PERFECTLY baseline. My Heart, Lungs, Head and all are FINE. The walk-in clinic had hooked up my EKG WRONG to begin with which caused a false reading. I more than likely have something torn in my chest wall that was causing the radiating pains around my heart area and there is pinched nerves that are causing the arm problem. So the good news is that I am perfectly healthy except the weight which my wife has now informed me will be coming off whether I like it or not. She of course would like a few minutes alone with the people of the walk-in clinic. So now I'm taking my anti-imflamatory meds and traveling to the land of Vicodinia. This was a horrible day....and yet it was also a very GOOD day. It was a roller coaster ride of emotions and fortunately for me it didn't mean an end of the "Big Ride" of life. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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