DR Elmore, I am so glad to hear that report from the cardiologist. I didn't say this before, but I suspected that something like that could be the happy result, but I didn't want to jinx it and sure enough it is.
EKGs, like X-rays and other things, are subject to machine errors and to doctors' evaluations as well. In the case of the latter, second opinions should probably be
de rigueur, though I say that as someone who hasn't yet gone that route on anything. Anyhoo, I had a routine EKG some fifteen years ago that caused the doc to say "I see one little
[something], but no worries, that's common and you're fine. In fact, that was a pre-surgery check, so it really was fine. And earlier this year I had one, also just a routine check, and that doctor said "the EKG looks great!". So I am happy and relieved to hear that you do indeed have the go-ahead on that.
BUT...like the doctor and DR Ron Pulliam and others say, do plan on it sooner rather than later. My particular reason for saying that is that one of my favorite relatives (well, one of my two favorites, and we lost BOTH within the past year) was in dire need of a hip replacement, but she allowed her *ungrounded* fears of the surgery to justify her refusal to have it, and her physical comfort and mobility so badly deteriorated over the next few years that I believe that's what helped finish her off in her early 80s, when she had been assured by all of her doctors all along that she was an excellent candidate for it. I don't want to see that happen to anyone else.
