The HHT and Afib Athlete

  Update January 2025 Well, progress was about the same for the other three ablations to begin with, although I was set back at least a week by all that drama in October (nearly died!   See my previous blog!!).   I was able to do things like Pilates and yoga a bit quicker than before but that may have been due to confidence rather than any physical recovery as such.   My walking was terrible as usual – it was nearly seven weeks before I managed to walk a mile which was several weeks slower than after the others which was really disappointing.   Instead, I used my electric bike a bit although progress was slow to begin with (as usual, sigh). After about 11 weeks though, my recovery just sped up.   I managed to walk two miles just 12 days after I finally conquered one; three miles came just six days later and four miles a few days after that.   And it felt much more like a normal speed than before.   I was thinking that I would soon be out on my...

  Recovery from Ablation number four 16 October 2024 – And so I’d had the famous Pulsed-Field Ablation – promising faster recovery! Plus this time I went into this pretty fit – I had trained hard as I could all year – got super fit in the spring, then missed two months with whooping cough, hiking in the summer, three weeks off for my nose op and then trained like a loon for three weeks! The ablation was as described in my previous post.   The first week was as usual – felt drowsier and more lethargic than I had recalled.   I had all wild plans to STUDY! REVISE GERMAN! AND FRENCH! AND ITALIAN! FINISH MY ON-LINE ADVANCED SPORTS MASSAGE COURSE! UPDATE MY BLOG! DO SOME WRITING! PLAY THE PIANO! In the event I managed a bit of reading, knitted some teddy bears and a bit of a jigsaw puzzle.     No energy to do more. Slept badly like I always do after an ablation – my shins were just killing me – I’m not sure if this is some sort of referred sciatic pain ...

  Adventures of a Racing Heart – A Pulsed Field Ablation this time! So, to the words of the old Whitesnake song “Here I go again now…”.   Back to Papworth for ablation number 4.   I’d previously had the cryoablation isolating the pulmonary veins in 2020, eleven months later in 2021 a Radio-Frequency ablation of Left atrium and then eight months after that another RF of Left Atrium.   Needless to say, I was not frightfully happy about having this done again and not very confident about the outcome, but I’d been warned I could not stay on amiodarone for years and years so felt I had no choice. This time I was not due to the hospital until 11 am which left a hideous amount of time to hang around the house being nervous especially as I had to be up to eat a light breakfast at 7 am. On and off since the Friday afternoon, three days earlier, I was in some sort of tachycardia – started after doing some crouching while weeding in the garden.   This continued off a...