So I felt pretty amazing on Thursday. But the on Friday, I woke up with intense pain in my heart. I thought that this was probably normal, considering I'd just had heart surgery, but then again, I was concerned because it was a nice kind of pain and, well, I'd just had heart surgery! Most of my pain is usually calmed with some Tylenol and Advil, but this pain was more persistent.
So, at about 1pm, Julien and I went into the emergency room to have it checked out. I knew that if I didn't go in, it would bother me all day and we would end up going in in the middle of the night anyways. They admitted me pretty quickly because I had had heart surgery so recently. I felt special :) They took the standard tests and the blood clot test came back more elevated than normal. So this meant that I needed another CT scan (third CT scan in, like, 2 months) to make sure that I didn't have any blog clots forming near my lungs. End result=my heart pain was normal and my healing is all going according to plan. The pain is probably due to scar tissue forming in my heart and being stretched. I didn't get home until 9pm.
Still, I'm glad I checked it out because I still have the pain now (two days later). You can imagine how crazy this would have made me. I think I was also pushing myself a little too much--walking longer distances and such--so my heart kind of told me to take it easy. I took it easy on Friday and Saturday and today I'm feeling much better.
