On Monday afternoon, I finally saw my cardiologist at Boston Medical. This was no small feat. I was supposed to see him back in December, six months after our June 2024 visit, per usual. But that appointment got cancelled, and I was told the next available appointment was not until early May. I reluctantly accepted, […]

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I rarely cancel doctor’s appointments, even when I don’t feel like going. But I did that on Monday. I was supposed to see my Boston Medical pulmonologist, the one who specializes in pulmonary hypertension, for a late afternoon appointment. This was a routine follow-up from February. However, on Friday I had just driven into Boston […]

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Last Thursday, I drove two hours in heavy traffic to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston to participate in a three-hour clinical study. As I wrote back in November, not long after I had a heart catheterization stress test, one of the cardiologists asked if I’d be willing to participate in a study to […]

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I’ve had an Apple watch for a while, now. I made the investment originally because it includes an ECG app, which has come in quite handy numerous times over the past year-plus, as I’ve been trying to understand my arrhythmia and related issues that finally led to a diagnosis of Type II stress-induced pulmonary hypertension. […]

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So, things have gotten a bit more complicated health-wise. For more than a decade, maybe 15 years, I’ve occasionally had an espisode when I’ve pushed myself to exert physically—running through Penn Station in New York to catch a train, hustling through a huge international airport to make a flight connection—and have gotten weirdly out of […]

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This past Friday morning, I had double-header appointments at Boston Medical, an echocardiogram followed by a routine appointment with my wonderful rheumatologist, who has been my specialist for at least two decades, now. My last echocardiogram was done a couple of years ago, one of those tests I have to repeat occasionally to monitor signs […]

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