1 hour ago · Life · hide · 0 comments

Yay, in hospital again. I've done a lot of hospitaling over the last three or four years. It's nothing to do with the most recent difficulty of pulmonary hypertension I wrote about recently on the face of it, but a re-occurence of the AF – atrial fibrillation – I last had over two years ago, and had thought was under control now. So I've gone from a resting pulse rate of around 40 beats per minute, to a sat still rate of about 120-150 bpm. It just came on and started madly bumpitty bumpitty bumping, instead of just a slow steady bump bump bump, on Tuesday evening, and by Wednesday afternoon I was being admitted to stay in hospital for observation, with an eye on them performing the electric shock cardioversion operation on me to get it back into a sensible sinus rhythm. By Thursday afternoon, the op still hadn't happened, but they weren't going to let me out yet. They upped my beta blocker dosage instead, and decided to step back and see what happened. Nothing happened. After nearly a…

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