I have decided to track my progress with the advice of another member and actually letting the crap out of my head helps. I can't wait to read these blogs a month or a year from now and see how I have grown. I have been trying to get with an ex-coworker to try to get some sort of stroke awareness going. I don't know I just have always been drawn to making others aware since I stroked. It amazed me how little others know including myself.

Another topic: Monday is a big day for me...I have to get a heart monitor and wear this thing for 30 days. I kinda freaked out because I've never known anyone who's had to wear this longer than 24-48 hours. I had a PFO closure (I know this sounds like a broken record) and since October I have been experiencing chest pains. Nothing that I feel I should go rushing to the ER, but enough to alarm me because I never had this problem before. I mentioned this to my cardiologist several times before and their main focus was on the graft. All my test were done 1 month earlier following the closure and I can appreciate the concern for the freaken "GRAFT", but come on people let's look at something else maybe there's another problem. The pounding and racing heart that I can feel in my throat and back are real. They only last a minute so hopefully this monitor will pick up something so we can fix the problem early. I know everything is trial and error with medicine...so since I have healthy heart tissue I would like to keep it that way. Not wait until you can see the problem with a naked eye, I prefer pinpoint size problems.

Finally after presistence this is what I get. They claim the 30 days should catch the problem because it never happened during any specific reason I just know it happens. It happens during sleep, walking anything.

Shelia :cloud9: