Nuclear stress test
So this morning I got hooked up to expensive equipment at the nearby hospital to have my heart checked. As I'm diabetic and have high blood pressure, I have risk factors for cardiovascular disease and my primary care doctor wants to make sure I'm not going to keel over from a coronary any time soon.
The whole process started at about 7:30 when a radiologist installed an IV drip and injected me with a radioactive substance. I was allowed to eat breakfast at that point, and I came back after about an hour and sat under a scanner that took pictures of my heart. Then I got to run on a treadmill until I was panting, then I got to sit under the scanner again.
The whole process took almost three hours from start to finish.
Good news is, doesn't look like I've got any heart problems. I guess that means I can get back to eating cake frosting straight from the jar.