6 more weeks of winter...not so fast mister

Bummer.
I had my first follow up appointment with my cardiologist yesterday. He says everything is fine and I'm slowly healing. Something about heart attacks are serious, you could have died, blah, blah blah.
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Then he mentioned that he wasn't going to release me for full duty for 6 weeks. 6 weeks. That's September for those without a calculator. Good grief.
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So as Manfred (the wonder doc) says, "the take home message here is that you're recovering from a very serious event and it could take up to a year to heal completely". This is not at all what I wanted to hear. I was kinda expecting to be released for light duty for the weekend and then back in the squad car by Wednesday. Never mind that I need a nap after walking around the block. I think they might call this denial.
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The ride home wasn't a whole lot of fun for Amy. She finally gave me the 'woe is me' speech. And I thought I had been whining and feeling sorry for myself in a very mature dignified way. Perspective I suppose.
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In 18 years at the DSO, I've never gone on light duty. I'm not very good at sitting still, so I imagine that I will be driving my office dwelling coworkers crazy for awhile. And if I'm doing radio room duty answering phones, well that will be just ....swell. At least on the street when we observe stupid behavior, we can take some knucklehead to the jail and go..."There. See what happens when you do stupid stuff?" On the phone.....man, God's testing me. At least I really like the people in there.
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So that's the brief update. Everything is going fine, just not as fast as I want it to. I still have this frustrating restless leg thing that is impossible to sleep through. It happens less now so I suppose it's getting better slowly. My ginormous bruise is now mostly yellow with islands of purple. Its not nearly as dramatic as it was and no longer scares the neighborhood children. My left arm still gets weak suddenly every now and then which is a side effect of one of the meds, but stills gets my attention when it happens. And I'm so tired. Doc says that's mostly from a tired heart muscle and will continue to improve.....slowly.
I go back in on Monday for an echocardiogram and a stress test. so I guess I will learn more fun stuff then. I should also be starting cardiac rehab soon. I need to call them today. That will be 3 times a week for 10 weeks. I have to go to the lab to give blood in a couple weeks for a cholesterol test, then back to the Doc on 9/2 I think. It's alot of work to have a heart attack. I would recommend starting off with something smaller to see if you like it before going straight to the grabber.
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So that's about it for right now. The new diet is going well. I thought I'd be living on rabbit food and starving, but it's been really good. We had a grilled chicken salad last night. So no complaints there.
The rest, as they say, is what it is. Ill keep doing what Im told and keep getting better...all together now....slowly.

Thanks for thinking of us,
Jim