What Happens at my BIOPSY

I'm always saying "I have a biopsy! Painful!" yadda yadda, but here is what actually goes down on those days:

• Wake up at 5:30am
• Hit the snooze button until 5:45am
• Get fresh & clean and leave the house at 6:15am
• Get to the Mazankowski Heart Institute before 7:00am
• Slip down to my skivvies and gown up
• Go into the operating room
• Get hooked up to a blood pressure cuff and some other monitors
• Get my neck sterilized and “dressed”
• Get an ultrasound on the area of my neck the doctors will be inserting the IV
• Get a couple shots of freezing in my  neck
• Get an IV in my neck
• Pressure is applied
• Get blood drawn from my neck
• A tube with scissors at the end of it go in and snip microscopic pieces of my heart
• Repeat 7 times
• Start to feel the pain
• Return to the waiting room and get the huge IV removed from my neck
• Get a Band-Aid around 9:30am
• Head to clinic for an hour or so
• Get seen by the transplant team
• The Mazankowski and head to the University of Alberta Hospital
• Eat breakfast and Visit with patients/nurses/hospital staff until 1:00pm
• Go home