This morning I went for my semi-annual medical check-up. Stuart, my doctor, gave me a clean bill of health then asked me if I had any concerns. I told him that I’ve been running for the past three years and I still have difficulty running any sustained distance without needing some walking recovery time. I’m talking about still having difficulty breathing even for a mile run.
We decided that I need to take a stress test and then a test to evaluate the efficiency of my heart and lungs intake of oxygen. We did a lung X-ray today and I’ll be doing the other test over the next several weeks. I did a stress test in 2004 and the administrator said, “I don’t know what you’re going to die from, but it won’t be your heart.” So I don’t think there is anything wrong.
I’m sharing this information over my blog because I’ve become aware of how important it is that I become my own advocate when it comes to my health. I tell my daughter that she’s lucky because she goes every three months and gets scanned to see if the cancer has reappeared thus she knows what’s going on in her body; most of us don’t know what’s going on until it’s to late. My father died of cancer but didn’t know he had cancer until 3 months before his death and he had been seeing his doctor regularly. He just didn’t ask the right questions and press for the right tests.
If we don’t ask the questions we can only be sure we won’t get the answers that we need.
I’ll keep you posted on what I find out.
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