Hello, hello, hello,<br /><br />Stayed up till 2AM last night, just playing around - canasta and mah jong.  My only real goal for today is<br />to finish a Jude Deveraux novel I&#39;ve been reading for about three months ( if it&#39;s not a book on tape, it takes me forever these days&#33; )...I&#39;ve only got about 15 pages left&#33;  <br /><br />Mary Lou, I know this test is anxiety provoking but, believe me, you will be VERY well monitored.  When I had mine, I started sneezing for some reason.  I had a couple of staff with me already and, instantly, about five more people appeared.  I guess they thought I was having an allergic reaction to the dye ( I was not ).<br />Anything involving the heart is always scarier, I think, and, of course, I&#39;m a nurse so I think that makes me the most difficult patient in the world.  You should have seen me at my colonoscopy ( which I did not have until I was 61 - you should have your first at 50 ).  I insisted on being awake though I did have some medication.  Both my primary care doc and the gastroenterologist were Chinese ( Drs Yan and Man ).  For some reason, that struck me as funny when I read the names on the monitor and I started laughing and saying, &quot;Yan, Man&quot; in a sing song voice.  Finally, Dr. Man began threatened to put me to sleep if I didn&#39;t stop ( I did ) and I concentrated on seeing the inside of my colon.<br /><br />Jackie, you&#39;re jumping back into work big time&#33;  No easing into it, huh?<br /><br />Hope the rest of you are doing well....not too cold or snow bound.  We are due for some foul weather out this way, rain in SF, snow in the mountains north.  I may NOT be headed to Tahoe.<br /><br />Carmen