Hey, I've been off enjoying my stress. lol.

No, it's the start of our baseball season (I'm the league president) and I'm just busy. It is stressful, but not the "no one's gonna die" kind. I think I DO react to stress like this. Sometimes it's my TMJ acting up. Two July's ago it was an ovarian cyst that chose to pop at the EXACT moment I was completing the last acts as director of three tournaments in a row!

So the heart palps could be stress related. I've been having them regularly ever since Monday night, especially in quiet moments (maybe I just don't notice in busy moments). BUT I'VE BEEN TOO BUSY TO GO BACK TO THE DOCTOR!!! (Except with my kid, which is another thing I didn't have time for.)

My gyno sent me for fasting blood work, so I did it first thing this morning. Afterwards, I'm sitting a stop light, and I have a few light radiating pains...beginning at 10:00 on my left breast, and reaching back behind my scapula. Sharp, lasting 2 seconds, about 7 of them, no palpitations. I thought, oh ****, this is it, I'll have to drive myself back over the hospital (just left there) and go to the ER and then I'll miss all the baseball meetings I have today, and who will do Opening Day on Saturday and.....they stopped.... I breathed deep, checked the body for pain, checked my jaw for clenching, twisted my neck for pops, checked my psyche for panic--nothing.

I KNOW! I shouldn't wait. But I feel FINE. Except for the palps. I'm busy!

Okay okay, I'll go after my big meeting with the bank president to discuss funding for the new concession stand. They're just going to do the Holter monitor and find nothing. I'll bet.

Karen