Monash Heart

Yesterday I took Mark to Monash Medical Centre for a Cardiac CT scan @ Monash Heart.
Boy was it a super long day! We left around 8am so that we could drop Brodie off at his bus stop. Angus walked to school so that was a big help.

No one warned us that there was roadworks from Garfield to Nar Nar Goon, they were putting up cheese cutters (road barriers to protect you from hitting trees in the middle of the median strips or on the side of the roads). I had to slow down three times for that. I don't know why they didn't have the same speed limit for the whole lot instead of letting you think oh thats the end of this & you can go back to 100kph.

Traffic went to a crawl a few times near the Narre Warren exits. I guess that is pretty normal for peak hour traffic, not that I ever really travel into the city at that time of day very often.
After 90 minutes we finally made it to the hospital.

We were 30 minutes early, we were told to be there 15 minutes early. I don't know why we were. Mark's appointment was at 10am but he didn't get called in until 10:30. They use this super duper Aquilion One 320-slice CT scanner to perform this particular test. They need to slow your heart rate down and inject you with iodine so that they can 'see' things better.

Of course Mark being the one in a million person that he is caused things to go a little differently than planned. You see they couldn't get his hear rate down enough. In the end he was given beta blockers or something like that to help.

All I know is that after three and a half hours, two crocheted beanies & a magazine later we were able to leave the hospital. I was worried for a little while there thinking that we may have to come back another day. Thankfully everything went okay in the end.

Mark should be able to phone the cardiologist to find out the results. Oh and we found out that the specialist he saw the other week in Warragul is THE HEAD Doctor at Monash Heart. And the people in the emergency department at Warragul didn't even know who he was. Oh well.

I am crossing my fingers that everything will be okay & its not Mark's heart that is causing all the chest pains. Although considering who the specialist is that he has seen I don't think I would worry too much if it was his heart. Especially since he is the top guy in Victoria.