I'm tired of cooking/preparing 3 meals a day. It's just the two of us but boy oh boy can that woman eat!! She stays slimish, I get fattish. It's bad enough I do everything here much less start making her one thing and me the other. At times I feel guilty when I buy her fast food cuz of the nutritional value....not to mention I eat it too.
Absolutely, Alva.
It does feel a bit weird to be so much older than my doctors, even though I am getting used to it.
I look at my doctors and I think, oh gosh! They look so young! Hee hee 😛
My cardiologist is young and quite handsome. My primary care doctor looks like one of my daughters!
I actually prefer having younger doctors who are up to date on everything. Not only that, they aren’t intimidated by newer technology like some older doctors are.
I had one older doctor who said that he hated using portals. He even said that he would rather pay a fine than to comply. I dropped him like a hot potato. I don’t want a doctor who has such an out dated attitude.
I have short silver hair. I am finding that many younger people will hold the door open for me.
Now, that they see me wearing a heart monitor, some are asking me if I need any help!
I have a friend that has fibromyalgia and uses a cane. She has the coolest cane collection.
Everyone notices her gorgeous canes that are quite expensive. She says that her fibromyalgia is not going to stop her from being stylish! I so love her sass!
Well, earlier this afternoon, I got an Amber Alert on my cell phone. A mother of two young children was killed in Louisiana.
The two young girls ages 4 and 6 were kidnapped by the dad.
It’s disgusting that this man killed their mom and one of his children. He has been arrested in Jackson, Mississippi. The 6 year old is alive and being released to her grandparents.
Just got another Amber alert just now saying, “See news for details.” The 4 year old is dead. They canceled the Amber Alert. These situations turn my stomach.
Look at usa.philips.com
You can see the device that I am using. It’s called MCOT Mobile Cardiac Outpatient Telemetry.
The home monitor is relatively simple. It’s a small device that is placed on my chest with suction cups.
I was given a cell phone that I keep near me.
If I have a symptom, all I have to do is hit the big blue heart to record the event.
Then I check a box:
Fainted
Dizzy
Chest Pain
Light Headed
Skipped Beat
Short Breath
Heart Racing
Other
Took Medication
After the month is up, the cardiologist reads it.
I was instructed to charge the cell phone every night on my nightstand and to charge my monitor when I take my bath.
I don’t find it inconvenient. The monitor itself measures about 1 1/2 inches x 2 inches. It’s less than an inch thick. Not heavy at all. I forget that I am wearing it.
The home monitor is so much smaller than the monitor they had on me in the hospital. Plus, the hospital monitor had lots of wires attached. The home monitor only has one wire.
PHILIPS makes it. It’s very user friendly.
How comfortable or uncomfortable is the monitor device?
I still remember the ancient Holter Monitors that no one would want a month on.
Now they seem to be able to do it with just a monitor in the house.
How does it work for you.
I am relieved they are watching you close for a month and that will be really good for you to relax. Stay watered up.
I hate the whole being over 80 thing as now I hate to drink a lot of fluid just when I should. I don't want coming in from the garden up the stairs over and over, or stopping someone driving a long distance because "I gotta go" and so I don't drink what I should. Like I said, almost all over 70 enter the hospital dehydrated.
My doctor said the same thing.We need to drink plenty of water
My doctor moved to Louisiana from Colorado and she said that the heat and humidity are brutal here.
She misses the lower humidity in Colorado.
Yay. 🎉🥳🎊.
Make sure you keep drinking enough.
They will continue to monitor my heart for a month and keep an eye on my BP.
Hoping to have some answers about my situation.
I have over 20 test results in portal. Will update all of you when I can.
Thanks again for your support.
wishing good health to us all!!
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I know what you mean. I am not usually fanatical about taking my BP daily.
I am going to follow my hospital discharge instructions until I see my primary care doctor this week.
Like you, I have a teenage doctor who is extremely thorough. I will see what she has to say about it.
I have been taking Irbesartan.
I take my BP daily, Need. Or DID once.
Finally, when I had a bit of an upglitch, got put on lisinopril which gave me the opposite reaction of what it should have (it raised my BP) my doctor said "Stop taking your BP daily; I MEAN that". I now take it about every two, three or four days, and am doing great. But then I had that little bout of cancer reoccurance that made me think, oh, yeah, so what on the BP.
We watched for you to come back and are with you in thought: I know you know that we mean that.
I am wearing my heart monitor. I have over 20 test results from my hospital stay in my portal right now. Will discuss the results with my doctors in my upcoming appointments.
Never in my life have I had my blood pressure checked so often. My word! They were checking it lying down, then sitting up, then standing up.
It kind of reminded me of attending Catholic school and going to Mass. Sit, kneel and stand over and over.
My friends who didn’t grow up Catholic and attended a Catholic wedding Mass would say to me that it was like being in a spiritual aerobics class! 😝
Still experiencing some symptoms but I feel a lot better.
Need, how are you doing?
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And you have a reminder of that guy of yours and what a miracle is the love and support "of our other". N. and I bicker our BRAINS out--we love it--but in times of crisis there is nothing like his comfort.
Wishing you a warm squishy snuggle into the covers on the bed, a night of dreams of wonder, and the best rest anyone can get with a DANGED Holter monitor on their chest. They once were anathema. I hope they are better.
And know you are in the hearts of so many here who LOVE YOU for the wonder of your kindness. I have said forever that when I grow up I will be "Need". (Barb. Hey, just about ANYBODY but ME).
I mean that. I will be more kind. You have taught me a lot even if my responses here do not reflect that fact; YOU are a hecka loved here. I think you know that. I will continue to ASPIRE to you.....
Sleep well.
10 x 0.56 oz also comes in sugar free.
I was having "low blood pressure moments" when drinking just water (along with my coffee and tea) so I found some electrolyte powder in Amazon - Key Nutrients Electrolytes Packets with no sugar - and put one in a jug of water for my drinking water. You can use 1 pkt in a glass but I dilute it much more than that and it is working. No more "low blood pressure moments".
Take care of you!
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Good on you.
Let us know when you are home and rested what their plan for followup is, what they think happened.
I am banking on low potassium causing the rhythm issue and dehydration and low heart beat causing the low blood pressure.
Keep fluids on board in the heats of the summer, Need.
I have my discharge paperwork. I have follow up appointments with my primary care doctor and my cardiologist.
They let me have breakfast this morning. I had my coffee, an egg, toast and a fruit cup.
I will try to read the added posts a little later and respond.
They will be bringing the wheelchair to my room in a minute. DH just left my room to drive the car around.
I am feeling better. I hope all of you are doing well. Thanks for being so kind.
I’m glad to be going home. The staff took good care of me but the hospital isn’t a place to get any rest.
Sending love and hugs back to all of you.
It was a great help to me to just type out what happened and look at it from almost a bystander perspective. There's so much we just can't do much about.
Important now to see to it that our NEED gets great followup now on this "thing".
I also had yesterday to know my SIL dodged bad medical advice. He had a huge jump in a PSA they were already watching; they were suggesting now perhaps a prostate biopsy (which isn't a whole lot of fun). He asked his Kaiser doc if the blood thinner they put him on for a lung clot a few months back (maybe Covid related) could make PSA change radically? Kaiser Doc said NO. Kaiser Doc was WRONG and 15 seconds on google would have shown him that there IS indeed a rise in PSA with Pradaxa.
I didn't even think there would be either, but his wife, my DD found it in seconds. There it is right online. Talk about life turning on a dime. Having hollow core needles stuck in your prostate for no good reason is a scary thought.
Every day we each try to take care out there. And every day we are like so many ants under a shoe coming down. Everyone take a second to thank your lucky stars, and let's continue to be careful (as we can be) .