Cardio Update

Today we met with Dr. Plana and he was very pleased with Mom's heart rate and pressure. He feels that she is now stable enough to have a test which will determine whether or not she has blockage in her heart. The test will be done next Wednesday morning by Dr. Cazar Iliescu who is a specialist in cardiology as it relates to cancer. If the blockage is minimal then they will not do anything about it ... if it is significant then they will remove the blockage immediately and Mom will spend the night in the hospital. While the procedure is a bit scary the good news is that Mom is well enough to do the test so that we can figure out why her EF is 22%. Once that is figured out ... then the next steps in cancer treatment can be determined. Her cholesterol was better but not great -- so more drugs to get the cholesterol under control.