One of the big reasons Dr. Olson wanted me back out here was to meet with immunology. I thought Courtney had said she'd worked out the schedule with Dr. Katial and that was who I was seeing today - he was in Hawaii though. I ended up seeing Dr. Mela, who I did meet last April and Dr. Weber. They were both very nice and thorough - I have to admit I was a bit disappointed though. :(
After a long consultation, Dr. Weber decided to double my aspirin dosage to 1300 mg per day for the next six months at least. He's hoping that will help get my asthma under control and we'll be able to drop back to 650 mg per day after that. He also ordered a full panel of labs to check all of my immune antibodies and such. They were very interested to see my IGg level since I've been off steroids a few weeks.
Later I had a repeat cardiac stress test with the agitated saline shunt (bubble test). I was so nervous about this test. It was supposed to be Wednesday morning, but they changed the schedule on me. I was still feeling pretty weak from being sick and didn't have much stamina yet. I was so concerned about not doing any better than I had done back in April.
Nikki and Rachel were in there to perform the test again just like before. That was very comforting. They could tell I was still a little under the weather, but said not to worry about it. I did all I could do and the test actually went okay. The good news was that now we could take our time getting ready on Wednesday morning. :)
