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Shobhit had his CT scan yesterday afternoon at 2:45. He got the follow-up from our doctor at 4:11. It read, in part:
Please see the full results of the CT coronary artery calcium score below. The score is 80 which places you above the 75th percentile for age. The most recent cholesterol guidelines recommend starting a statin to reduce the LDL by more than 50% to a goal of less than 70 mg/dL in patient's or greater than 75th percentile. I can send a prescription / your pharmacy if you are open to that or we can check back in to discuss this in more detail before starting medication.
Later in the email it also notes:
Per the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) coronary artery calcium score reference, this score is at the 83-92 percentile rank for the patient's age, gender, and ethnicity.
Shobhit is following the recommendation and has had the medication sent to our pharmacy.
Side note: I only just noticed that the email began with, "Hi Shobit," misspelling his name. That's annoying. I know it's a small thing but it's also not that hard to get the spelling of a name right. It would be all over the hospital records. I actually rather like this doctot but that part just rubbed me the wrong way a little bit, as it always does when people misspell his name, especially when they are people known to have seen the name spelled correctly many, many times (this includes Facebook friends who misspell it).
Shobhit has been exchanging several texts with both Danielle, who has the medical education as a nurse; and Laney, who had a heart attack 12 years ago and thus is on similar treatments.
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Shobhit met me at work yesterday and we walked home together. The weather wasn't quite as spectacular as Sunday, but I still did walk home without my jacket on—the forecast high was 69°, but it was 66° by the time we were walking, and by then we had pretty full cloud cover so it still felt a bit cooler than expected. I probably could have worn my jacket and been fine, but I was also fine without it.
At home I baked Amy's Pot Pies for dinner; I had bought a bunch of them months ago when the Amazon store down on Jackson closed and they were on clearance. Or I think I bought one or two at PCC when using a $ off coupon. Either way I have more than usual, and this burned through them. We're kind of going to do the same thing with Deep Indian Kitchen naan pizzas tonight.
We finished season 2 of
Deadloch, which I liked much better after the last two episodes, which were the best ones of the season. Many of the earlier episodes had a very "sequel" vibe to them, typical plot contrivances just to get characters from the first season back together even though the setting shifted from Tasmania to Northern Territory. But by the end, I really liked it.
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In other news, Alexia and Shobhit and I plan to go to the Tulip Festival in Skagit County on Saturday; Alexia hasn't been in probably twenty years, she says. And now, Ivan is going to join us too, just like he did for Whidbey Island on March 22.
Oh! I don't think I've even mentioned this yet. Ivan took that job in Edmonds and has been staying in an AirBnB up there for the past couple of weeks. We got a couple pieces of mail for him and were a little baffled as that hasn't happened in ages, so Shobhit asked him about it on Friday. That was when we found out he had taken the job in Edmonds—two weeks he'd been back in Seattle and only now thought to mention it to us. He can be such a weirdo sometimes. It would have been a matter of days before he took the job that he actually messaged me he hadn't made a decision yet, between this or a job opportunity in Vermont. He was on a visit to Vancouver, B.C. at the time.
In any case, shortly after that I ran it by Alexia to see if she minded if I invited Ivan to the Tulip Festival with us; in all likelihood he's never seen that either. She was perfectly happy to invite him and so I did, then he said he'd "consult his busy calendar." Only a couple of days ago did he finally say he'd like to join us; I told him we'd need an address to know where to come and pick him up, which he ignored until this morning. So now he's asking if he can stay the night Friday and Saturday. To me this is just Ivan being cagey again; he's always hesitant to tell me exactly where he's at. But, this would make the drive up there with Alexia a lot easier, as we would not have to get off the freeway in Edmonds to go pick him up if he's just already here.
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[posted 12:31pm]
