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@daniel ok. Yes, I know that it is now - just didnt recognise the acronym

Yes they are simple to use - I actually got trained by paramedics when they installed one in our village, a few years back

Too expensive for us to buy. But they're everywhere here in the UK now.

We had lots of red phone boxes. When the phones got taken out of many, they just painted many of them bright yellow, added a defibrillator - when you call for an ambulance, they give you the code to get in

Most pubs and churches and shopping centres have them for people to easily access

I was actually hooked up to one when I was in the resuscitation ward. supposedly so they could see my heart function instead of using an ECG

I'm told it could only work with my heart condition, if it was synchronised to my heart rhythm, and shock me at the exact moment between the top half and bottom half my heart beat

Made me wonder how good the basic ones are...I know they're very clever: I have atrial fibrillation

@daniel what is an AED?

Taken my evening meds. Never thought I'd be on so many

Meanwhile, I was contacted by track and trace (who I do NOT have an account with, & who I will not be urgently contacting & downloading the app for) to say I had had a positive PCR test and must self isolate for 10 days

But before I was discharged a nurse told me of that, and asked if I'd had Covid. When he heard I'd had it a month ago, he said to ignore it as PCR tests give false positives for 90 days

So I called the ward back (Holy spirit answer to prayer, as I got stressed about it, & we have a super important journey tomorrow - can't mention where, but is is super important)

He told me to ignore the multuple texts, emails & phone calls as I could NOT have covid; that he'd un-confuse the hospital team responsible on Monday morning when he was back at work

Am grateful to God that I got the same nurse who told me about this exact thing, and just before he finished for the week

God is good

"Go get in with your life" ok then

@tanjaostman guy on the right is Steven Uppal who is the pastor at All Nations in Wolverhampton - a very large Pentecostal church

he's a lovely chap - went to school with him (I led worship in the Christian Union he was running at the time).

He is what he comes across as - an authentic lover of Jesus

New rules for new Covid Variant in the UK

One comment that summed it up for me:
"Party all night at a big rave with no masks, and all good. but can't post a letter at the village shop without a mask?"

Another one "you can fly in to the UK from abroad, and yet you don't need to test for Covid for 2 days? If this was as serious as they say, why not test on arrival, and before people leave the airport?"

And one more "yes I'm sure the self employed people will happily not work or earn money for 10 days at a time"

And that sums up the new steps being taken ahead

Meanwhile the triple vaccinated are cross because the new rules will apply to them too

We'll see what the final rules are since this is clearly more of a testing the water thing with todays briefing, with confirmation coming next week

When I started issuing covid updates on my family health, I didn't think i'd have to continue with updates on my heart

So I went to A&E (ER) on Thursday @ 15:30 because I had, I thought, the same symptoms - when they said my heart was fine & found a lung infection instead (2 weeks ago)

They tried medication into my heart to reduce it's speed

When that failed it revealed beta blockers were needed instead. If they failed they'd have shocked my heart into normal rhythm come the AM. Praise God the beta blockers did their job, by 0730

I got almost 1-2 hrs broken sleep in hospital. At home last night I got 11 hours 🙂

I'm on 3 meds, until I can be seen at an arythmia clinic:
1 slows my heart rate (& should stop another attack of atrial fibrillation)
1 reduces my BP
1 thins my blood

I'm 20 years too young for the meds, but this is, God willing, only until I see that specialist - probably next spring

Andy B

@Kruselady He did last night - 11 hours. Jo woke me up at 10am for the first of my 12 hourly medication.

@Cherishingsparrows2020 thank you

Home and tired. Early night for Jo and I

Got my meds to thin my blood, reduce my blood pressure and slow my heart

Have to take it very easy for 2 weeks.

Hopefully, these meds could be stopped as and when I get to an arythmia clinic, which is likely the spring at this point

Thansk for your prayers and kind messages

I'm off to bed! 48 hrs, and mess than 2 hrs sleep doesn't really work for me!!

Andy B

So my heart switched to a normal rhythm this morning...didn't know that until 2 hours later when the consultant met with me and told me it had

Heart rate was down

Blood pressure was up

Waiting on an ultrasound of my heart to check that out

So I'm probably gonna be on blood thinners, until I can be processed through an arythmia clinic to make sure I don't have a stroke in the meantime. Beta blockers to prevent my heart from going off on one again by keeping its pace lower. And blood pressure meds to bring that down

It spiked yesterday but didn't want to come down

With the heart rate reducing, it seems to be coming down on its own though...

They're hoping I should be discharged later today

It hinges on a slot happening for the ultrasound of my heart, which they've been waiting for for a while

They still hope I'll be discharged this afternoon/evening

@tanjaostman just waiting to see the cardiologist to see whats going on

I'm on a heart ward now. Wired up to be monitored over night. Have been assessed and really want some sleep!

More scans in the morning. Then we'll see what happens next

Andy has been admitted overnight to heart unit. Currently on Beta Blockers to get heart rate down, which seems to be working! Jo

Nurse is confused with my symptoms

My blood pressure, oxygen levels and heart rate (pulse) are all really good (if you compensate for my not wanting to be here which would raise the heart rate and BPba little bit)

I'm really not very fit yet

I've been working on it

But this chap asked me if I was a runner, because my heart BP and heart rate were so good

He reckons covid has done this. He had similar symptoms from his bout of covid last April. It took him a year to get over it, due to scarring in his lungs, from a lung infection

He thinks I'm suffering from what he suffered from, because 1 month on, it fits the symptoms

@faith20 Thanks antonio

Jo's taking me back to A&E (ER). My heart or chest seems to be doing funny things again.

Last time I went, for these same symptoms, they told me heart was absolutely fine and they found a mild infection in my lungs which they blamed for my symptoms

It feels more like the muscles in my chest are simply agitated, rather than my heart. I've checked my pulse a few times, and that has seemed ok.

Either way, they told me to come back to hospital if it happened again. it has, so we're going back very shortly.

Please pray for wisdom all round, and a speedy resolution.

I feel, otherwise, the best I've felt for weeks. Even the cough seems to have finally disappeared today.

Andy B

@KarlGessler @MaryMamuzich @Cherishingsparrows2020 @Olamide @faith20

@tanja what am I missing here? Resigning within one hour?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-59400539

@davereimer good to hear the pain was relieved, and that you have a diagnosis

@tanjaostman

Ooh, bible versions - almost as volatile a subject as Vax or no Vax lol

NLT new living translation - was written for people for whom English is not their first language. Scholars say it is a good translation; my wife is English, but loves it

I like the NIV 1984 version ( if you can find it) - later versions became politically correct over accuracy

Our boys like the CSV and I prefer the ESV, which is a more accurate translate, but slightly less easy to read naturally

Older translations have their issues, and their use of words that aren't commonly used anymore

My two cents, anyway, on a topic I've thought about it a bit