09-09-2008, 11:56 AM
I don't know if I should put this here, or in General... it's kind of about fishing, but kind of not.
Anyhoo... I've been having a little "adventure" this weekend, with my bad heart. It'll start beating oddly and pounding, I'll have chest pain, nausea, hot/sweaty, all that good stuff. Sometimes these 'attacks' or episodes only last a few minutes. When they go longer than 20 minutes, even after breathing exercises and rest, I go to the hospital. Except this time!
I go upstairs (I live in the basement) to tell my dad...just as I get to talking to him, it'll quit. First couple times it was half an hour. So the next time, I figure I'll wait (also considering it was 3 A.M., and I didn't want to wake up the old guy)...so finally at 6, figuring it's set and not gonna stop at all, I go upstairs....soon as he starts putting on his shoes, it quits! AURGH.
I called my doctor, and got told that going up the stairs can somehow make a "natural" pacemaker, because the new rythm of strain, cancels out the old random rythm of palpatations. Told me to try not to do any stairs, and come to the ER. Okay.
So...next time it happens, I call the house line on my cell phone, to tell my dad to bring the car down to the garden gate. Get in, and we get all the way down to the city hospital (where my specialist doctor works)...I figure "okay, finally!" ...soon as I start signing papers to get checked in, it stops!!
Happened again just this morning. I tried the stairs 4 times, and it didn't work! I thought "Yay, it's really stuck this time!" So I wake up my dad, and we go out to the car. Before I can even open the door, my heart yet again decides to behave.
Poor dad probably thinks I'm just wanting attention, or somethin' [frown]
Sooo, here's the fishing part! I have an invite request on the General board. It's still valid, but I may have to cancel at the last minute, if I have another 'attack'. Of course, if I try to go to the hospital, I may just end up calling you back to go fishing after all! LOL
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Anyhoo... I've been having a little "adventure" this weekend, with my bad heart. It'll start beating oddly and pounding, I'll have chest pain, nausea, hot/sweaty, all that good stuff. Sometimes these 'attacks' or episodes only last a few minutes. When they go longer than 20 minutes, even after breathing exercises and rest, I go to the hospital. Except this time!
I go upstairs (I live in the basement) to tell my dad...just as I get to talking to him, it'll quit. First couple times it was half an hour. So the next time, I figure I'll wait (also considering it was 3 A.M., and I didn't want to wake up the old guy)...so finally at 6, figuring it's set and not gonna stop at all, I go upstairs....soon as he starts putting on his shoes, it quits! AURGH.
I called my doctor, and got told that going up the stairs can somehow make a "natural" pacemaker, because the new rythm of strain, cancels out the old random rythm of palpatations. Told me to try not to do any stairs, and come to the ER. Okay.
So...next time it happens, I call the house line on my cell phone, to tell my dad to bring the car down to the garden gate. Get in, and we get all the way down to the city hospital (where my specialist doctor works)...I figure "okay, finally!" ...soon as I start signing papers to get checked in, it stops!!
Happened again just this morning. I tried the stairs 4 times, and it didn't work! I thought "Yay, it's really stuck this time!" So I wake up my dad, and we go out to the car. Before I can even open the door, my heart yet again decides to behave.
Poor dad probably thinks I'm just wanting attention, or somethin' [frown]
Sooo, here's the fishing part! I have an invite request on the General board. It's still valid, but I may have to cancel at the last minute, if I have another 'attack'. Of course, if I try to go to the hospital, I may just end up calling you back to go fishing after all! LOL
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