Jan 2023 Unhappy New Year
4th January 2023 I ended my last post with a defiant "neither AFib nor HHT is gonna stop me" - until it did! During my rehab from the nose op I managed to hurt my knee so have now added even more physio to my list - underdeveloped adductors this time... Then mid December I started getting periods of tachycardia where my heart rate would go up to 100+ beats per minute. I know this as a precursor to Afib but my arrhythmia nurses said not to panic and see how it went. How it went was that following a walk on 30 December I sat and had a cup of fruit tea at 11 am. The tachycardia started and then flipped into full blown atrial fibrillation. I decided to ignore it even though it was about 120 irregular beats per minute, but felt too ill and so was taken off to the big trauma hospital one hour away. Not before I had a complete meltdown and was crying and saying, like a brat, "I don't want to go"! Usually I am seen in about an hour and hooked up to 'telemetry&