the thread of ATRIAL FIBBING

i asked abt this and they said no it's in the hospital

If you do have surgery, the anesthesia may make you lose some words for a while: they'll say Oh Noes, what could it be, better run some neurologicals---but (judging by the experience of several friends & relations in recent years), it may well turn out to be anesthesia---if they can't find any other cause and the condition is temporary, that is. Can last up to 3-4 weeks, at least it did for a couple of the people I know who were affected.

better safe than sorry obv but i've actually been under full general anaesthetic since the fibbing began -- albeit for fibbing related procedures so i guess they have the heart under close observation throughout

and they didn't involve sharp cutting knives which this one in a small way would

hope this goes well for you

waiting for a phonecall from my health centre following up on the letter the anaesthetist sent to my GP, which fingers x-ed is just admin

meanwhile ATRIAL FIBRILLATION was trending on twitter this morning -- partly bcz it's apparently stroke prevention day (tbc i am in favour of stroke prevention) and partly bcz thousands of anti-vaxx numpties are busy screeching that AF is caused by the jab (clue: it is not)

oh the letter arrived at my house also, he thinks i am at risk of sleep apnea and wants me to take a sleep studies test -- which fine, sure, w/evs

Believe me, taking one and getting CPAP was a game-changer for me!

yeah it made a big difference for mr veg also

Same for me - especially helping with racing heart in the middle of the night stuff.

turns out -- six months later -- that i have no significant sleep-disordered breathing tho i do have "severe snoring" lol, sorry neighbours i can't hear it and it doesn't affect me

quick atrial update: despite ongoing adventures with vertigo lol, my annual check-up went v well -- the consultant (the same cheery guy who i have now seen in three sepeatre hospitals, barts in smithfield, the royal free in gospel oak and this time in fkn ENFIELD) (nice shiny modern building tho) was v positive: my heartrate may be a bit faster than all you sad normies but i am otherwise reassuringly asymptomatic (viz this higher rate causes me zero distress) and he thinks no further procedures are necessary at this stage 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

(not even sure what these procedures wd acually be: more cardioversions and ablations? on towards a pacemaker? anyway, we not going in that direction yet)

(i have a friend whose grandad had 18 !! ablations and lived into his mid-80s so i am chill either way, tbh i just want a quiet life and life in plymouth is exactly this, between the world-historical storms anyway)

Hooray! (but sped up so it doesn't sound like whalesong to you)