I have just spent the afternoon at the GP's surgery. I had several times in the past spoken to the Dr about what I thought was a heart arrythmia, but it didn't show up on ECGs. Anyway the last couple of days I have been woken at around 2.30 a.m. with an extra-fast pulse (worrying, given that mine, resting, is actually abnormally low (40 - 48). I have been on the sofa all morning, sleeping but being woken again by my racing heart. I mentioned it to the kids, thinking it was a bug or something I was coming down with. Tam was worried and told me to go and get it checked out at the surgery. So I did - have had blood tests done, two ECGs and blood pressure done (that very good - first 120/76, then 107/76). I saw a new-to-the-practice Dr and he was very thorough, and explained to me I had a hint of the start of atrial fibrillation. It wasn't presenting all of the time, but the 2nd ECG showed it was there. I am now on medication to thin my blood.
So, I am feeling a bit shook up, needless to say. My mum died of a stroke, my gran of a sudden heart attack and my dad was on Warfarin but died from a blood clot on the lung all the same . . . I am feeling a bit less mortal now . . . The rotary cutter will have to go, that's for sure! Can't risk another bad cut.
Don't know what to have for tea. Don't fancy the other half of last night's stir-fry that's for sure. Fish fingers perhaps.
My Dad had AF for the last 15 years of his life and was on blood thinners, but he was 92 when he died. I suppose we are getting to that age where we feel our mortality is shrinking rapidly. I hated being 47 as that was the age my Mum died, so I have always looked on any year after that as a bonus. I'm now 72. Take care of yourself. Hugs Xx
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