00:00well we're back at gold coast university hospital this is yet another one of those tests that they
00:06ordered because of the seizure and we got daddy with us today and goodness because obviously i've
00:13got spencer as well so today's test is uh let me get this right computed tomography cardiac scan
00:21that's basically a cardiac angiogram and they're going to be looking at what they're going to be
00:28doing first is they're going to be injecting me with a contrast dye so i think they're going to be
00:35putting an iodine contrast dye in oh is there a 30 that's really cute darling no matter what horrible
00:44medical tests i'm having spencer can always make me laugh um so they're going to be injecting me with
00:48a contrast dye and it is safe for breastfeeding so that's good like the iodine one is apparently
00:54safe for breastfeeding and they're going to be then putting me in this scary horrible
01:00donut shaped machine which is the ct machine and looking at my heart and today they're going to be
01:06looking at the coronary arteries now they're the actual arteries that supply blood to the actual
01:12heart muscle and the reason they're going to be looking at this is that um there's the possibility
01:18well hopefully not obviously we're hoping that it's the salt that caused the seizure but another
01:23cause of the seizure could have been um because the cardiologist was concerned that if there was
01:30an abnormal amount of blood supply to the heart muscle that could have caused an abnormal arrhythmia
01:36and that could have caused the seizure so they are going to check today to see if there's a narrowing of
01:42those coronary arteries because if there's a narrowing obviously less blood than is ideal is getting to
01:47your actual heart muscle so um i'm um look the last blood test i had showed very normal salt levels
01:54and i haven't felt lightheaded anymore since we did fix up my salt and i was in the level of um
02:01hyponatremia so i'm really hoping that the seizure was really caused by hyponatremia but when i did go
02:07into emergency i did have abnormal levels of enzymes in my heart or something i'm not sure about the
02:13technical things of what was going on but my troponin levels were elevated so there was something
02:19going on with the heart but hopefully again the seizure caused that not the other way around so
02:24today's test is checking to see if the heart caused the seizure and i'm very much hoping that
02:29the seizure caused the issues with the heart and sort of gave the heart muscle a bit of a punch like an
02:34injury so so anyway that's the test today so that is going to be interesting but right now we're just
02:41enjoying the moment and we're enjoying the birds and i'm so i'm so lucky that i have someone that puts
02:51a smile on my face so here we are at the medical imaging department and now i've registered at the
03:11desk and now i'm just waiting so i've got all my own a bit nervous the waiting is horrible
03:25i'm all hooked up here so i'm in a little section or a large section actually that they brought that
03:30they bring patients in so i've got a cardiac monitor on and the nurse said it's a nice healthy rhythm so
03:37that's good and i've got a very active healthy toddler here as well i'm having um my hydrolite
03:46drink because apparently you're supposed to really stay hydrated at least that's what the letter said
03:50because the contrast dye it's up to your kidneys to then sort of get rid of it i guess so they say
03:55to stay hydrated and i've also got this um i think just monitoring my heart rate and then they're going
04:04to be soon giving me some medication that i am nervous about to lower my heart rate down to about
04:1060 beats a minute i think and i am nervous about that one because i'm worried that my heart is going
04:18to get lazy and if it's lowered it's just going to go oh stop it you know i'll just stop working all
04:23together i'll just have a rest because i'm so tired so i'm nervous about that and once my heart rate is
04:32lowered to a satisfactory level then i'll be brought into the room where that big donut shaped machine
04:39is and just before or actually oh the nurse here is going to be putting a cannula in as well so i'm
04:46going to have a cannula in the back of my arm and then i go into the room and then um as i'm on the bed
04:53actually i'm already going to be on the bed or in the machine and that's when they're going to inject the
04:59contrast dye so actually during the scan so that's going to give them a really good reading of my
05:05heart and so oh my blood pressure has been taken now so i wonder oh it's not risen
05:18these medical tests they are so anxiety in producing basically i've got base anxiety anyway so i'd have to
05:27be have to endure all these tests is just a little bit of a nightmare but look we're very
05:36no no pressing buttons in here buttons
05:41he loves pressing buttons he's gonna press the emergency button in a minute if i'm not careful
05:46um but we're very lucky obviously in australia to have excellent medical care
05:50so i'm in here to get this computed tomography cardiac cardiac scans to get my coronary arteries checked
06:07so they've um now given me some medication to lower my heart rate
06:17so it's just a little tablet that i swallowed with water and they're aiming for i think
06:23below 60 or 60. at the moment it's probably not any of that so i've got to um
06:29ah take a few deep breaths and they've given me a warmed up blanket that's so nice about hospital
06:37they've got they must have a heating cupboard or something where they warm these blankets up and
06:41to have a warm blanket actually put on it was so nice
06:48i'm just taking a few deep breaths and just chillaxing here as spencer aptly put it i'm in my bed
06:55or i'm in bed and hopefully the heart rate will go down enough i have been warned that if it doesn't
07:03go down enough they might not do the procedure
07:14so my heart rate has finally come down i was given a double dose of well not a double dose they started
07:21me on half a dose of metophorol let me try and get that medication correctly start to pronounce
07:28and then they gave me another 50 milligrams so my heart rate's finally come down enough so this
07:33way i'm ready for the scan and um i feel a little bit lightheaded actually because it's obviously
07:40lowered my blood pressure as well so it's um
07:44um chilling out here with my active little buddy and i've got this here because it's cold it's always
07:52cold in hospitals and i haven't been walking around at all so i i get the chills easily but
07:59anyway so i'm gonna go in shortly they'll put a camera in and then i'll go in and get the contrast
08:04die and they'll pop me under that big donut shake machine
08:15no push button no pushing button no pushing button you're very very good aren't you
08:22well the cannula is in now so we're getting ready for the scan it's not long to go now
08:52so well here i am so i've been wheeled down in a wheelchair so that was kind of fun having a ride
08:59and now i'm going to be in the vehicle
09:08so this is exciting i'm on this this looks like something out of star wars honestly
09:15and they're going to give me a tablet in a minute to dilate my blood vessels
09:18and then i'm going to go yeah it's all right and then they're going to inject some of that
09:25contrast dye and obviously spencer cannot be in here when they're doing it so they're about to start now
09:41so guess who had a ride in the wheelchair on the way back and he came running to me when they opened
09:46the doors and i came out so they are so kind here they've brought me a cup of tea and some snacks
09:59spencer's eating the crackers i'm eating the cheese
10:04and um yeah they're just lovely here they look after you so well this is beautiful to have a cup of tea
10:10but you know what i actually found that really scary i don't like admitting this but i actually did
10:19the machine is really loud like it buzzes around you really loudly and so my heart rate started to spike
10:26and because it started to spike they had to bring me back out of the machine
10:31and one of the um nurses down there was so kind he was just talking to me and
10:35it's sort of just you know talking me down from from the sort of the fear which like oh water
10:43and um and then they did a test so they put some contrast dye in just to test so your hands your
10:48arms have to be up like this above your head and um and so they put in some tests and when they put
10:55that in and also the medication under my tongue those two medications combined the one under my tongue which
11:01expands your blood vessels and or dilates and um and the test dye both of them combined started to
11:09make me feel really dizzy like my head started pounding and my mouth felt a bit funny from medication
11:15and i thought i was having an allergic reaction so i think that's why i got a bit scared and then the
11:19machine tells you things like breathe in breathe out and hold your breath and while i was holding my
11:25breath i think that's when my heart rate spiked because i did i felt i felt a bit of fear
11:29and so then i was brought back out of the machine and then they came and talked to me which was
11:35really nice like they're so kind and so patient so they just chatted to me and then it was time for
11:42the real one so the bed wheeled in back in they were out of the room obviously because of the radiation
11:47and my arms were above my head and they put in the proper dose of the contrast dye and it is a weird
11:54feeling it really is sort of hot like it was hot around my throat it was hot all through my body
12:00and it was hot all in my groin so that's why everyone says it feels like you've wet yourself
12:05because it really was it was it was quite heat and it was rapid too like from when it got injected in
12:10like you basically your arms are up here and there's a cord that runs from this cannula and it must run
12:16i don't know where it runs to but they must be out of remote control started so it's a push push in
12:21and so then i think my heart rate must have spiked again even though i was really trying to stay calm
12:30because then after the scan which didn't take long the actual scanning bit didn't take long it was
12:34i would say maybe less than a minute but i don't know i didn't have a clock to look at um then i was
12:40taken out of the machine and then they looked at the scans and i was borderline and what that means is
12:46my heart rate did spike and so it was going quite fast and in that small window where the heart's
12:52beating the the picture that they can take of your um coronary arteries was a bit blurry so then they
13:00got a specialist down just to have a look at the pictures and he gave me okay so i hope that means
13:07that maybe they're not worried about my coronary arteries i don't know i'm going to take that as a good
13:11sign but um so they weren't perfect the pictures were borderline but but the specialists did say
13:17that borderline so it was accepted if it if they had to repeat it they were going to try once more
13:23straight away like they were going to put another lot of dye in me and just put me back in the machine
13:29you know today on the same day but anyway i only had to have it done once so
13:33ah so that's done now so i'm going to obviously wait for the results just hopefully it's going to
13:41be okay just like the eeg was okay too so i was very relieved about that but we are very lucky here
13:47in australia to have excellent medical care and everyone down here in the medical imaging department
13:53has been so nice and so kind and so patient you know and and really great with with spencer like just
14:02i think he's made a few people's day just with his cute smile and riding on you know when the when
14:09the doors opened to that medical imaging room and spencer ran to me saying mommy mommy mommy i
14:15i just have to say that was probably the highlight of my week
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