{"id":230,"date":"2013-05-12T15:19:40","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T20:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/?p=230"},"modified":"2013-05-19T10:51:49","modified_gmt":"2013-05-19T15:51:49","slug":"im-all-wired-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/12\/im-all-wired-up\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m All Wired Up"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Here I am, all wired up<\/p><\/div>\n

A few weeks ago, I got a little dizzy while riding my bike up a hill, causing me to run into a rock wall<\/a> and skin my leg. Since then I’ve seen the Dr. a couple of times, had some blood tests, wore a heart monitor for a day, and had a treadmill test. During the treadmill test, the Dr. said everything looked good, but I don’t have the final results from that yet.<\/p>\n

The results from wearing the heart monitor for a day showed that I has a couple of briefs episodes of \u201cectopic atrial rhythm\u201d. I believe that means that my heart had some extra beats it shouldn’t have had. After reviewing those results, the Dr. decided I should wear a heart monitor for a month<\/b>!<\/p>\n

I went to the hospital and had the monitor \u201cinstalled\u201d a couple of days ago. The monitor box is a bit heavier and bulkier than my cell phone. It seems to always be in the way. \u00a0I’ve pulled the wires out a couple of times already. It is not my favorite thing to sleep with, that’s for sure. I can take it off to shower, thank goodness. I was given plenty of extra electrodes so I can replace them each time I take a bath.<\/p>\n

The monitor has a button to push if I feel any symptoms. That causes the monitor to record for several seconds. \u00a0Otherwise, the monitor detects irregular heart beats and sends a wireless signal to record the data. I pushed the button this morning because I felt a little light-headed. About 30 minutes later, a person from the company that supplies the monitor called to ask what I was feeling and what was I doing when I pushed the button. I asked if she could see any irregular heart beats, but she said she didn’t know anything about that. She said the Dr. would be the one to discuss the results.<\/p>\n

I wore the monitor yesterday while on a 53-mile bike ride. I worried the electrodes might come off when I got sweaty, but they didn’t. It was pretty cool yesterday, and I didn’t sweat much.<\/p>\n

I’m glad I can ride while wearing the monitor. Otherwise, I would just take it off to ride, but I really didn’t want to do that. But, I don’t want to stop riding for a month just for this test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago, I got a little dizzy while riding my bike up a hill, causing me to run into a rock wall and skin my leg. Since then I’ve seen the Dr. a couple of times, had some blood tests, wore a heart monitor for a day, and had a treadmill test. During […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bob","category-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3qUzP-3I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265,"href":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sunlightbay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}