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got the holter review.

scary to read, but they say probably benign.

schedule echo-cardiogram.

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yesterday over an hour out on the snowshoes

today warm, so no snow walk.

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[Smoke]

Ice coming our way.. ugh… I’ll take snow any day!

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snow tonight

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sleet and ice.

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yesterday and today

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yesterday clubs

wood when there is snow on the ground is via a snow scoop.

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Any news on your monitor you had.?

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from the report ...

CONCLUSIONS: ... Average heart rate 79, minimum 52 maximum 124. Frequent ventricular premature beats, mostly in bigeminal cycles. These represented 5.8% of all beats. Single 6 beat run of ventricular tachycardia to run rate of 171 noted at 2:00 PM. ... Some periods of ventricular bigeminy were associated with symptoms. ...

they say it is premature ventricular contractions or pvc and that it is generally benign if the heart is otherwise healthy.  they want the echocardiagram to check on that. scheduled for 6 weeks from now.

my reading about pvc confirms generally benign, but lots of variables - especially frequency - the effects of which i would like to know lots more about before i am convinced.

in the meantime, while it can occur with no symptoms, i've got a bunch, none very pleasant.

it's like a bad buzz with shortness of breath.

and it is frequent. average 5.8 percent of 80 per minute.

thanks for checking

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not dead yet.

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yesterday and today

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you'll love this, Smoke.

when they scheduled the echo-cardiogram for mid march i asked to be put on the cancellation list.

whoever it was said they did not have a cancellation list.

so i called the next day to ask what the best time it would be for our daily call to check if there were any cancellations.

this different whoever it was said indeed there was a cancellation list and i would be put on it.

next day: come on in.

now, my dark side wonders if they called me in to avoid getting that daily call.

anyway, had an echo-cardiogram today.

will report when results received.

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Right doesn’t know what the left is doing… the world is suck an inept place!

Keep me updated.

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we are having March weather in February.

water over ice.

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got a report of the reading of the echo.

now have to spend a few hours searching the terminology

doing my reading so have some idea what to look for.

have plenty of time to get ready for dr's appt.

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Yea been nice here the last couple days.

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my reading of the web definitions of the echo terminology  is "not good".

let's see what the docs say.

in the meantime, i'm not dead yet !

although the horizon may be closer than i would like.

but then, when was it not ?

keep fighting !

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Have they said anything about a pacemaker or defibrillator?

My neighbor actually ended up with both and is doing really well.