3 Month Check Up

I went to the cardiologist today for my 3 month check up (I have regular visits scheduled for the upcoming year).  This visit I had a transdoppler test and an echo cardiagram with bubbles.  The transdoppler test shows how many bubbles are passing through my heart to my brain.  They do a scale of 0 (being none) to 5+ (more than 300 passing through).  They run 3 different scenario's - 1. bubbles at rest, 2. bubbles tightening the stomach muscles, 3. bubbles blowing into a very small tube.  They also do  the same scenario's with the echo cardiagram with bubbles.

The results:
Scenario 1 - no bubbles, score 0
Scenario 2 - no bubbles, score 0
Scenario 3 - bubbles, score 5+

So what does this mean.  It means I am healing.  There are no expectations of being completely healed for up to 1 year.  Because I exercise, and because of the particular device used the healing time is 6 months to 1 year. 

I am very excited I am getting better.  I no longer have exercise induced asthma, mostly because it wasn't.  Instead it was blood being thrown to my lungs.  My heart rate it high, but I was told to expect this for a while (good to know, because I was wondering).  My blood pressure is doing well, and I do not need to have as much salt.  My chest pains are not as painful, and I have significantly decreased my chances of having a stroke.  Best of all the every day fatigue is going away and I am able to hang out with my family and ride my bike a lot more.