Oh boy! This is gonna be fun...Today we are doing a Cardiac Catheterization. I'm not really happy about this because I don't see why I need it. I don't smoke, I don't drink, I'm in (pretty good) shape, so there shouldn't be any gunk in my arteries.
"It's just a precaution" they say. So, I tell them to go ahead and knock me out and get it over with, but they go "Oh no, you need to be awake for this so we can talk to you." WHAT? No happy drugs? I like this less and less all the time.

Anyway, they wheel me into this operating room and it's kinda cold in there. The Dr comes in and gives me a shot in my groin, or my "Special place" as I like to call it, to numb the area. Then I get to see my heart on a TV screen over my head as he feeds these wires up through my Femoral artery and into my heart. Strange, there are no nerves inside arteries so I don't feel it (Thank Goodness). After a while they tell me they are going to inject some dye for contrast, and it's like WHOOSH..A really nice hot flash that goes from my ears to my toes. Remember I said it was cold in there. So I tell them to "Hit me again" because it helped warm me up. So they do. Nice..

Just as I thought, clean as a whistle. I'm feeling smug about it, but I hold back the "I told you so" that I had ready. Besides, they still have needles and stuff.
Doc says "OK, this part will hurt, sorry but I have to do this." At that point he takes something that I can only describe as something that looks like a mini-marshmallow and SHOVES it into that hole he poked in my Femoral...Damn! He wasn't kidding, not the most pleasant experience so far.

After a nice 2 hour nap flat on my back I get to get up and go home. Next stop, meeting the Surgeon. We have gone from "We gotta fix that" to "We're finally gonna fix that."