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Priceless. You're gonna love this...after being T-boned by a Merc on Thursday am.....at 2pm Friday....I step into Whittington AnE triage for sore ribs chat. The nurse takes my pulse - and says 'whoa that's scary walk this way to Emergencies'. He explains low heart rate (38) to the emergencies staff. They gown me up and give me an ECG then put me on a heart monitor. I'm sitting there for quite some time (hours). They keep checking on my pulse. Then x-rays of chest - then CT scan of thoracic cavity with dye in my blood. Later a specialist comes by to take a look. At 8pm he comes to talk to me - closes the curtains. Good news and weird news. Good news is just several cracked ribs (that's the good news????!!)). Weird news is that I am displaying a syndrome called Complete Heart Block. My heart's own pacemaker is not working. It fires but the signal does not get to my ventricular heart chambers - instead they beat independently and hence slowly. It can be benign - or deadly. I've to see a cardiologist asap. I was discharged on the basis that I have had low heart rate for several years - and that I'm fit - and that I don't show symptoms such as feinting, chest pain, nausea, loss of libido. The plan is to decide is it benign or not. If not benign, treatment is a pacemaker. Bloody marvellous. I must find and thank the Turk in the Merc.
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Wow, that's a lucky catch! But does that mean I'll have to be nicer to the next cunt that runs over me, in case they find a dodgy ticker or something? Shit, that'll spoil the fun a bit.
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Good luck, Mel. Shame it isn't just your general awesome bike fitness. I once went in and they found a resting heart rate of 40, but there was nothing untoward about it. Hope you get it sorted/get a good way of living with it.
Oliver Schick