All about my heart.

I think it's interesting that yesterday when we were strolling around the park, we came upon a heart sticker on a tree. And today I was scheduled for a Heart Stress test. I don't know... symbolic in a way? Maybe I'm just a looney! LOL So today I had a stress test. I'd never had one before. Very interesting! It wasn't bad at all... the only thing that make me feel "uncomfortable" if you will was the fact that I had to take off my top/bra for the test. Mind you, I had a little shirt/gown on top but the main person doing the test was a male and he had to open it up to do the images and take off the stickies and cables and stuff. He saw my boobies. LOL It was a tiny bit uncomfortable for sure... LOL But I got over it. Whatever. My gynecologist is a male so this was no big deal... HA. What they did was take images of my heart at rest (before I got on a treadmill), took my blood pressure, ran an EKG and then did it again after they put me on the treadmill and worked my heart rate up to 180. And then compared the images. They didn't give me the results right then and there but gave me some comforting words. "Everything's looking good... your heart is doing what it should be." So I'm taking that as an I'm ok.

I still have a follow up appointment later this month with my Cardiologist to go over the results of both the Heart Echo and the Stress Test. I have a feeling I'm ok. Now the wonderful thing to look forward to is considering that what I'm really suffering from is Panic Disorder. I don't want to be put on meds. Are you kidding me? I don't want to be a druggie. I don't want to depend on drugs to make me "relax" and make me feel happy all the time. That's why I've turned to Yoga and OMG...I know I've only being doing it a short time but I feel amazing. I've had a few episodes still where I feel heart palpitations (anxiety, maybe?) but nothing compared to what I was experiencing the past few months. I was dreading every day. Dreading another heart palpitation or whatever. Yoga's helping with that though I think. So I'm sticking to it!

Busy BUSY day today. I took care of my business taxes and opened up a new bank account as well. I opened up a business account but didn't open a personal account and I'd been meaning to for a long time. I'm so glad I finally did that. When my husband deploys I'll be taking care of all our finances so this is going to make things so much easier for me. I'm really relieved about that.

Anyway, change of subject. It's supposed to snow tonight! Supposedly a lot. The drop in the weather is crazy. It's cold! We'll see if we get any snow after all. I'd like Sofia to use her snow suit she got from Grandma again. LOL This Winter's been pretty wonkie here. Seems like everyone else got snow except us and that's kind of unusual. Last year we got a few snow showers and boy was it cold! But then again, I haven't lived here THAT long to know for sure but it just didn't feel like Winter here the past few months. I'll make sure and take pics if it does snow. K?

When we were on the road, we were listening to this spanish station and this one song came on. I didn't recognize it but it sounded VERY familiar. For some reason it brought back memories of me in Mexico. Flashbacks... and then as it continued playing, I started singing the lyrics... still not recognizing the artist or song... then when the girl's chorus/part came on, I recognized it! It was TIMBIRICHE! And when this song was a hit, I was living in Mexico with an Aunt at the time, I believe. I'm not exactly sure... it just brought back memories from Mexico. I felt warm inside, happy and I felt like a kid again... good ol' times... I miss the 80's! It rocked. It was weird though.. I listened to it and it made me happy but listening to it with my hubby in the car next to me holding my hand, made the song have a new meaning to me. Because now this song totally applied to him. I love him...