I just dropped my mom off for a nucleo-something or other stress test. Prayers would be appreciated! She's "failed" two stress tests already, if she fails this one, the next step is an angiogram, which is alot more invasive and has a higher risk to it. As is, this one gives her like a 2% chance of having it trigger a heart attack and getting her sent to the cardio department of the hospital. And, I'm not a huge fan of the idea of the angio because her best friend's dad died of cardiac arrest during one when he was all of 7 years older than my mom is now.
She's taking them all the get permission to start excersizing again, as her primary told her she needs to lose weight to bring her cholesterol down, and improve her overall health, but her cardiologist (she's had a couple of scares before) won't let her work out and she doesn't want to have to try to lose weight (like 15-20 pounds) with dieting alone.
So, please be praying she passes this one!
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