Musculoskeletal Issues?

My cardiologist wrote me back late tonight. She has been pretty good with replying to my messages so she must have been busy. Since the shortness of breath doesn’t come when I exercise, it’s probably not coronary artery disease. She thinks it may be musculoskeletal and I should try calling the thoracic surgeon. I guess I’ll call the surgery nurse tomorrow and see if she has any ideas. It is definitely getting worse though. I was at church earlier tonight and just by walking down a set of stairs and across to the first row in the parking lot winded me again. I’m going to walk a bit on the treadmill to see what happens since I haven’t done so in awhile.

I thought the bypass surgery “fixed” my artery issues, at least in the short term. The thoracic surgeon should have bypassed all the clogged arteries during the operation. Unless I clogged some other existing blood vessels or the replacement arteries, I’m not sure what’s going on. Also, it shouldn’t be COVID-19 since I’ve been tested four times since the shortness of breath symptom started.

Finally, the sternum bone movement is most worrisome. I don’t know why this happened all of a sudden. I’m hoping the thoracic surgery people will tell me that this is normal or expected 9-months post surgery and it will pass. With my luck, likely something else is wrong and this will sideline me for a kidney transplant, again. Maybe I’ll never get off dialysis. Ugh, I can’t even think about that.