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Thanks for sharing this good news, Mary. Carry on! DE ------------------------------ Doris Edwards Retired RN Dublin, Ohio ------------------------------

Got all my results this morning, Nuclear Stress Test was deemed even better than Average and come back for medicine check, Isosorbide, in 3 months. This made my day, I had suspected that a broken chest plate done during my Open Heart was the ...

Mary,  I hope your 4 hour stress test went well.  Sounds like a nuclear stress test, which I had several months ago.  It was all hurry up and wait and, during the waiting, the nurses tried to feed you junk food, which I tossed but drank the orange juice ...

I must respectfully dissent from Ira's remarks about control of sodium. As a kid my three basic food groups were pretzels, pickles and pastrami. "Robert," my mother would say -- a boy should always listen to his mother -- "You are going to get hardening ...