TranscriptMcGREW: 9 a.m.
new type of treadmill test: “thallium treadmill.” Rose early for myocardial exercise thallium study, involving treadmill & injection. No food since dinner last night; drank a cup of coffee before leaving home — only to find I’d have to wait more than an hour for it to leave my stomach before taking test. After treadmill had a chest-photo scan, & was told to return at 1.30. Did, & after waiting half an hour asked receptionist, How much longer? 15 minutes, she said. When that was up I asked, Now? Not yet. I’ll wait five more minutes, I said, & then I’m gone. Left at 2.25, wasting all that was done this morning. Came home, ate bacon & eggs — first food in twenty hours. Angriest I been in years. Took Dr. Haxton out to dinner; expensive — & with $6.00 parking fee. |