Well the imaging reported a clean bill of health. Stress test on Friday where they will do an ultrasound while I run on a treadmill. They can somehow measure blood flow through the valves and the aorta from the ultrasound, probably using Doppler techniques I imagine.
Tonight I rode with the wireless heart rate monitor that comes with the ROX5 cycle computer. I had never bothered to use it before but seemed the thing to do under the circumstances. I did my usual 12.85 km route and got home to find my tail light missing so I rode back to find it, covering over twenty kilometres. My maximum heart rate was 153 which seems pretty tame. However I never felt under any real duress.
Doctor says if I pass the stress test and the ultrasound video looks good they special will probably say “you have a low heart rate, interesting, goodbye.” I hope my private health insurer is getting good value. It will also end up costing me a bit but I will be happy with a copy of the video.
New medical imaging equipment has obviously gone head like the rest of imaging. I guess it usually does no harm to get specialists to check the pictures out. For all I knew I could have been like a friend whose doctor told him at an “I don’t fell so well” visit, that he was going straight to the hospital because his heart was failing. Oh well, maybe not.
I’m still expecting this to all be a curious experience that confirms that I have an excellent heart. My father was told in his late sixties that he had a heart of a man thirty years younger. All he did was jog a bit and run the odd marathon. Chip off the old block?