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| VegasRacer |
  Mar 5 2004, 10:46 PM
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ELVIRA  Group: Benefactors Posts: 8,525 Joined: 27-March 03 From: Between Scylla and Charybdis Member No.: 481 Region Association: None 
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Part of the requirements to keep my competition racing license is to have a thorough physical every two years. Last week I went in for my exam. The results for my EKG came back as abnormal. The doctor would not sign my medical release form and I had to make an appointment to see a cardiologist.
That exam was today. They have a treadmill and other stress test in the office. For me, just having to go was more than stress enough. I passed with flying colors. What a BIG relief. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mueba.gif)  |
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| campbellcj |
Mar 5 2004, 11:14 PM
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I can't Re Member Group: Members Posts: 4,550 Joined: 26-December 02 From: Agoura, CA Member No.: 21 Region Association: Southern California 
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Congrats...as I approach the big four-oh, these kinda things cross my mind a bit more often. I 'spose I should go in for a physical one of these years. |
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| john rogers |
Mar 5 2004, 11:18 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,525 Joined: 4-March 03 From: Chula Vista CA Member No.: 391 |
Not sure about PCA and POC but VARA and HSR both require exams every two years and when you get to 60 they make it every year!!!!
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| campbellcj |
Mar 5 2004, 11:37 PM
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I can't Re Member Group: Members Posts: 4,550 Joined: 26-December 02 From: Agoura, CA Member No.: 21 Region Association: Southern California
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POC exams start at 40...
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| Rgreen914 |
Mar 6 2004, 02:50 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 285 Joined: 20-October 03 From: West Covina, Ca. Member No.: 1,266 |
Last year, I was having these weird feelings while working out at the gym; sort of like a "gasp", or a "hiccup" while riding a recumbent bike (bad knees prevent my riding a stationary bike). Went to a cardiologist and he set me up for a "stress test," of sorts. Since my knees also prevent my using a treadmill for stressing, they had me on gurney, shot me with some drug to induce a "stressed" state (felt very warm all-over)and then did the EKG. Normal results did not end the testing and an angiogram was soon scheduled. This time the hospital staff gave me a tylenol and an antibiotic before going into an operating room; not nearly the drug-induced state I had been (mis-) lead into believing I would experience. Once inside the o.r., they literally shove a large diameter needle into your femoral artery, in your thigh, near your groin...VERY unpleasant procedure! Then they inject a dye into your artery and watch it progress through your heart on a tv screen above the operating table. Suddenly, the cardiologist asks me "why are you in here?" Now I'm freaked...HE's the doc and he's asking ME why I'm here!!! I figure, now I'm in deep bandini, until he adds, "there's nothing wrong with your heart!" RELIEF...at least until a nurse tells me, "you're not going to like me now" as he removes the abovementioned needle from my thigh! Removal of this needle was twice as uncomfortable as inserting it! I guess the end result was worth the discomfort! And I do mean DISCOMFORT!
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| BarberDave |
Mar 6 2004, 03:23 AM
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Barberdave Group: Members Posts: 1,605 Joined: 12-January 03 From: Wauseon Ohio Member No.: 135 Region Association: Upper MidWest |
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Hi: i am 65, last month i awoke at 3;00 A.M. with ( what i belived to be Chest pains) AKA Heart attack. Went to E.R., 35 Hrs later and every test known to man. IT WAS , Indigestion , . but they just can't let you go home with out something to worry about. So he said he saw ,MINOR IRREGULARITIES, NEED TO LOSE WEIGHT,AND EXERCISE !!!!! Ok i can do that, I guess it could have been much worse. Dave (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smilie_flagge6.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) |
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| ArtechnikA |
Mar 6 2004, 06:35 AM
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rich herzog Group: Members Posts: 7,390 Joined: 4-April 03 From: Salted Roads, PA Member No.: 513 Region Association: None |
you have to know we're dealling with a 'momentum' vehicle (i.e. - underpowered...) when we think it's news that anybody passed anything !
glad you're okay! ---rich (trying to get into shape for the AX/DE season...) |
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| rhodyguy |
Mar 6 2004, 08:18 AM
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Chimp Sanctuary NW. Check it out. Group: Members Posts: 22,098 Joined: 2-March 03 From: Orion's Bell. The BELL! Member No.: 378 Region Association: Galt's Gulch |
wait until you turn 50. there are some real nice proceedures in your future (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif) . i thought maybe you were refering to smog testing the car in the topic title.
kevin |
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