Mark Twain
Call me Ishmael.
Friday morning
I woke up at 8:30, my heart was racing. I wasn’t in any pain, I wasn’t short of breathe, so I thought I was fine. I waited around for three hours, but my chest was still pounding. I sat down on my exercise bike and used the pulse reader. It showed my resting pulse rate at 170, so I freaked out! I called an ambulance and they took my pulse, it was at 190. They loaded me in the back of the Ambulance and took me 30 miles to South Austin Hospital.
They strapped shock pads to my chest, about 40 leads to the EKG and heart monitor. The ER doctors gave me five doses of a medicine to lower my heart rate, but none of them took. My pulse ranged from 170 to 190 for five hours. They were preparing to stop my heart with a chemical or reset it by shocking it back into rhythm.
My buddy AJ took this picture right after the doctor told me this.
But they didn’t have to do this because the medicine began to work. My rhythm stabilized back to normal, and they took me to observation.
That night
Nurses took my blood every 2 hours, so there was no sleep. The medicine they gave me to slow my heart worked too well, and my pulse dropped into the low 40s for most of the night. It only stabilized this morning. They said my heart racing was atrial fibrillation caused by some unknown stress event that occurred during my sleep.
They let me out a few hours ago. I’ve got to cut back on smoking and modify my diet and reduce all level of stress in my life just to figure out what triggered this attack, because they still don't know.
I woke up at 8:30, my heart was racing. I wasn’t in any pain, I wasn’t short of breathe, so I thought I was fine. I waited around for three hours, but my chest was still pounding. I sat down on my exercise bike and used the pulse reader. It showed my resting pulse rate at 170, so I freaked out! I called an ambulance and they took my pulse, it was at 190. They loaded me in the back of the Ambulance and took me 30 miles to South Austin Hospital.
They strapped shock pads to my chest, about 40 leads to the EKG and heart monitor. The ER doctors gave me five doses of a medicine to lower my heart rate, but none of them took. My pulse ranged from 170 to 190 for five hours. They were preparing to stop my heart with a chemical or reset it by shocking it back into rhythm.
My buddy AJ took this picture right after the doctor told me this.
But they didn’t have to do this because the medicine began to work. My rhythm stabilized back to normal, and they took me to observation.
That night
Nurses took my blood every 2 hours, so there was no sleep. The medicine they gave me to slow my heart worked too well, and my pulse dropped into the low 40s for most of the night. It only stabilized this morning. They said my heart racing was atrial fibrillation caused by some unknown stress event that occurred during my sleep.
They let me out a few hours ago. I’ve got to cut back on smoking and modify my diet and reduce all level of stress in my life just to figure out what triggered this attack, because they still don't know.
