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Pooh
Describe the health scare...
While securing a load in the trailer, I got very short of breath and it didn’t go away for over 10 minutes. EMTs came and found this using a portable EKG unit:
(Two points of you can figure out what it indicates.)
Based on what they saw in the EKG, the EMTs strongly recommended I immediately go to the emergency room l, so I went.
At the ER, they found the same irregularity, but fortunately nothing else using the following tests:
1) Enzymic evidence of heart damage.
2) Xray and CT scan of chest.
(Additional points for figuring out what kind of enzymes they were looking for and why the imaging of my chest area).
After all that was done, I was feeling okay and wanted to get back to work, but the Safety department of my company saod that I had to recleared by a DOT medical exam given the reported shortness of breath event. That exam, which I didn’t pass because of the irregular heartbeat, prompted the need for me to be cleared by a cardiologist.
And
that, my friends, motivated me to loss weight. Very much so. Because I don’t want excess weight to affect my ability to make money if having that extra weight contributes in the slightest to my heart being “stupid”. And I have absolutely no desire to get another type of job. So, yeah. Ingotta lose this fucking weight!