Get a nuclear cardiac imaging / stress test. Mine is done in the doctor's office (with a machine and staff that's worth significant bucks).
It maps blood flow to all areas of the heart under stress and compares that with non-stress circulation.
I don't know where you are, but availability of high-end machines varies (my cardioligist does angiograms in his office!). For example, there are more MRI machines in Seattle than in all of Canada. I'm in Houston and we have twice as many MRI machines in our town than does Seattle.
I enjoy reading both of your posts and getting very good advice.
Good to hear it. About 35 years ago I was given a 10% chance of living
10 years (melanoma cancer) today a dozen or so new cancers later, I am still here. The last one they gave me a 97% chance of living five years. At my age, that's great even without the cancer.
I retired almost two years ago. Just previous to that, I was granted SS disability. So, the union insurance lumped me with a new group. Medicare does not kick in until you have been on SS for two years.
On my old group when I was working, I could pretty much go to any doctor. With that new group, I had to go to Larry, Moe and Curly. The regular annual nuclear test that I used to have every 12 months in my doctor's office took 19 months to get approved through Larry, Moe, and Curly MDs, and the new plan.
It's a three part deal, tread mill, x rays and echocardiogram. I went in for the test, and they were going to put me on the treadmill first. They did that to a friend of my wife's, and he died on the treadmill. They asked me why I didn't go have the echo first, and I explained that I was the patient and they were the administrators, and that I was just following directions.
They took the nuclear text x rays and echo in December, something my old doctor always did in July. Said I needed two stents.
I said I would wait until I got on Medicare, and could go back to my old doctor. April 1 comes and I am on Medicare. BUT I didn't notify them by certified mail that I wanted to disenroll, so they automatically put me in another group that takes control from Medicare and administrates your health care. You have to go to who they say you can go to. So, I have to wait another month to get out of the clutches of Larry, Moe and Curly, MDs. Now I'm up to twenty months on something that would have been done eight months ago under my old plan.
Insurance companies ..................... ahhh, I could talk about them all day.
My sincerest wish is that every adjuster, agent, and administrator has some serious tragedy in their lives that involves being tied in knots with a greedy insurance company, inept adjuster, and greedy administrator.
I have no doubt that had I gone to Larry, Moe, and Curly MDs. as they wanted me to do that they would have placed two stents somewhere although I did not need them.
Don't even get me started on workman's comp. I was permanently injured Oct.
20, 2003, and I was accepted by SS for permanent disability April 1, 2005. I won't get my first check from them until September, 2007 because they applied my settlement to my future payments with SS. They can do that in my state. Someone who didn't have savings or anything built up would be living on the streets by now.
Too bad all the politicians don't have to live with the insurance policies and Medicare like the rest of us normal humans.
| Don't even get me started on workman's comp. I was permanently injured Oct. | 20, 2003, and I was accepted by SS for permanent disability April 1, 2005. | I won't get my first check from them until September, 2007 because they | applied my settlement to my future payments with SS. They can do that in my | state. Someone who didn't have savings or anything built up would be living | on the streets by now. | | Too bad all the politicians don't have to live with the insurance policies | and Medicare like the rest of us normal humans. |
Call your congresscritter and state insurance commissioner. They tried something similar with me and a few phone calls got that straight.
BTW typically they can offset only 1/2 of the SSA benefits as you paid half the contribution.
It's okay. It's like Homer Simpson said, any time I want to put something new in my brain, I have to kick out something old. Even a hard drive reaches capacity.
But it's amazing. I can remember minute unimportant things from thirty years ago, but go to the store for three items and have to call home twice.
"yIn nI' je chep" (Klingon translation of live long and prosper)
Course my favorite is "HIHIvqa' may' pequ' moH"
Its surprising how many people speak Klingon today.
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