Part 2: Now the fun begins.....

So...you just went almost 3 years in one little post.
Now the fun really does begin....

I had gone to my new pulmonary doctor and he was out of town at a conference.  The fill-in doctor says lets schedule you for a CT scan before your next appointment in November (we are on current dates now).
So I say no problem.

The following Monday, the pulmonary doctor gets back into the office and looks at my charts and sees the run around I've been getting, the delay in records from my POS PCP....and calls me.
He tells me he'd like to get me in for a CT scan right away to really identify what it is we are looking at.
I say ok.
He schedules me for a CT scan on Aug 27, 2025 and a follow up on those scans on Sep 15, 2025.
I go in.  Go through the testing and they were like, we will send this over to your doctor and go from there.

I'm feeling good.  My cardiologist has taken me off one med completely and then the other med down to 1/2 dose.  I haven't had high blood pressure in over a year.  My blood pressure, resting heart rate and everything is doing great during this time.
I feel like we are finally moving forward.  Lost lots of weight and everything.
But one thing I started to notice is that when I'd exercise or go for walks, I'd start to get winded sooner.
I'd walk the same area (the Wildlife Area) near my house.

                      That blue house is me!

As you can see there are many (paved) trails and I'd routinely walk that almost daily.  Some days farther than others.
*by the way it is a great walking area if you are looking for someplace new

But I began to notice that I would get winded or tired faster.  Like significantly less.  So I knew something was going on, but wasn't too worried about it because I had all my medical stuff in high gear, health doing good....no worries.

At this point I am also getting ready to see my new PCP for the first time on September 8, 2025.
With my CT scan a week prior, I felt confident going into the visit that they'd finally figure it out.

At 9 am, I go in for the first time.  Meet my new doctor (who is awesome by the way) and he meets with me and looks at my records and asks if I had a CT scan done.  I mentioned yes, I had one about 10 days prior.
He says hold on.

...and now here is my entire appointment

Comes back with another doctor and that doctor tells me,
Dr: "You need to go the ER right now!"
Me: "Uh, what?  Like now?  Why?"
Dr: "Well, we are looking at your CT scan and there is some significant blockage with your lungs and they can get you to the right care you that you need"
Me: "Right now?  Like this very minute?"
Dr: "Yes, right now or we can call you an ambulance"
Me: "An ambulance? For what?!?!?  I just drove here and the hospital is literally across the street, why would I need an ambulance?"
Dr: "Well it shows your primary hospital as St Clare (I'm at St Joe for this visit)"
Me: "Like right now?  I have to call my wife, I have to make arrangements, can I go later tonight or tomorrow?"
Dr: "Well, you can go in the morning, but you HAVE to go first thing"
Me: "Ok"
....that is it.  That was my 10 minute first time PCP office visit....lol.

So, I leave go home and wait for Steph to go home and tell her.  I'm confused, she's confused.
On top of that, Stephanie points out that I didn't ask enough questions.....lol.
It all happened so fast, I didn't know what to do!