Cardiologist

Yesterday, I met with my Cardiologist with my 6 month follow-up just to see if everything was still running smoothly inside my chest.  Five stints were put inside 3 major heart arteries back in 2009/2010 in NYC at NY Presbyterian Hospital but a Dr. Moses who perfected the procedure of cleaning out arteries and inserting stints.  The Cardiologist at UT Medical Center in Knoxville was recommending a triple bypass instead...  mainly because they did not have the equipment or the skill to do what Dr. Moses did for me.  However, ever since that heart operation, I have been seeing a Cardiologist at UT Medical every 6 months to make sure my heart if functioning normal or as normal as possible for someone my age after having a heart attack.

The first task once I am in the office is to have an EKG performed which is an insurance/liability issue because and EKG does not measure what might have happened before and or what might happen in the future...  and, like always, it demonstrated that I had a normal heart rhythm.

During my visit, I asked if there was an alternative to taking XARELTO since with every small cut...  like from shaving, it would take at least 2 band aids to stop the bleeding.  The Cardiologist said he understood what I was going through and had heard that before from other patients...  and, before he could consider stopping XARELTO, I would have to wear a heart monitor for 30 days to make sure that there were no irregularities taking place that I was not noticing.

So, I am wearing a heart monitor and it is synced to a special phone also supplied that records my heart rhythms and transmits that data back to my doctor's office every 5 days.  I have to recharge the phone everyday as well as the heart monitor which according to the instructions takes about 90 minutes.

My device is an MCOT Patch - Mobile Cardiac Outpatient Telemetry...

Small price to pay to see if I can get off of XARELTO...