How to spend a Friday .... not!

So I had my hair pinked up, was showered and shaved.
shaved?!?
yeah!
just in case my wrist wasn't good enough!  ha!
I was off to have an Angiogram and if they couldn't get in through my wrist they would enter through my groin.  Wish you hadn't asked now doncha!?!!

There were six of us waiting in the ante room, all with an eight o'clock appointment!  We were taken onto the ward, shown to our beds where we were asked to dress up in the wonderful back opening gowns and given some wonderful paper panties to wear.  Such fun!

We spent the next hour or so having forms filled in, information checked, BP checked and then .... the Doctor comes through and says 'can we hurry up please it's nine o'clock already!'
So the order of operation was sorted out (one could say!) and then during the course of the day it was changed.  All those lucky ladies who went to theatre first also had a cup of tea and toast, which then changed to a sandwich!!!  The rest of us just tried to ignore the fact that we had not had a drink or eaten since the day before :-(

Eventually I went down to theatre, some watched a good show, while I tried to relax against the pain, heat flush, pinprick and the x-ray square moved over and around my chest.  The Doctor, safe behind a screen, explained that everything was ok and I could go back on the ward!

Once I was more sociable, after coffee and a cake sandwich, the Doctor came round to the ward and told me that not only was I ok but, and this is a big BUT, I could throw away all my tablets.  Yeah!  happy dancing!!!

Now I am home again, resting as I was told to, and so thankful.  When I was first diagnosed treated  implied as having a dicky heart, I prayed that if I was ill it could be treated with tablets but here I was .... thanking God and Praising His Name for what He had brought me through.
I have my souvenirs of course ......

 my left arm where the cannula was .....

my right wrist where the tube went in ....

.... and  ..... 

the bruise from my bloods taken a week ago!!!





but praising God all the time ... for He is good!