Tomorrow

Tomorrow is “pacemaker day”. I expect you’ll be unsurprised to learn that I’m quite worried about it. I rang the ward administrators today to confirm the bed and they said I’m in the same ward that I was in last time so at least I will be in fairly familiar surroundings. I haven’t packed my [...]

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Date for pacemaker implantation…

…is the 6th of August. I was reading about the procedure again today. I’m not sure I will be able to cope with it being done while I’m awake, so I hope I can be made as unaware as possible of what is going on, although I am still scared of having a general anaesthetic [...]

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Nothing to say?

Despite the fact that things are happening in my life (obviously, but you know what I mean) I find that I have little or nothing to say about them, so I will just make a brief annotated list to keep you informed:

I’m going to start a ‘new’ job on 1st July. I will still have [...]

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Pacing

I went to see the pacing doctor today. He was quite friendly and helpful and realistic in an almost discouraging way. He was trying to make sure that I didn’t think that having a pacemaker fitted would make me suddenly have lots more energy. Unfortunately, this is what I was hoping would happen!
He also explained [...]

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A busy week

This week, it was my birthday and our wedding anniversary and we also had an appointment with the cardiologist on Thursday. I think I’ve mentioned before (probably several times!) about my sometimes strange heart rhythms. After experiencing strange rhythms on an increasingly regular basis and having yet another 24-hour tape since I wrote my post about [...]

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Art in unusual places

When I was in hospital, one of the things that made my days more cheerful and my walk around the wards more interesting was a lovely collection of pictures featuring whimsical, pretty, sweet and sometimes slightly odd scenes cut out of paper. I think they were made by Rob Ryan. If I’m wrong I apologise! You can [...]

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Trying to do something useful

I have decided that it’s about time I at least attempted to do something useful with my life. It could be argued that I do useful things in my job all the time, although it doesn’t always feel like it to me. Anyway, this is about doing something useful outside of work and also about trying to [...]

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NaBloPoMo

Yes, I am doing NaBloPoMo again this year. I hope I can do it. I found it quite challenging last year and November is looking to be busy so far, so could be even more challenging this year! I seem to have booked myself up for almost all the weekends in November, apart from [...]

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Open Hearts

The Grown Up Congenital Heart Patients Association  has just published a little book of stories from people with congenital heart defects, called Open Hearts. If anyone has followed me to WordPress from my old blog you might be able to remember me talking about trying to write my story for this book. I eventually finished [...]

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What if everyone could hear everyone else’s heartbeat?

What about little microphones? What if everyone swallowed them, and they played the sound of our heartbeats through little speakers, which could be in the pouches of our overalls? When you skateboarded down the street at night you could hear everyone’s heartbeat and they could hear yours, sort of like sonar?
Being able to hear your [...]

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