BerryBunch Family @Berrybunchfamily@dingdash.com

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

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

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

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

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

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We try to open our windows once a day. Even when it is less than warm. Just for 20 minutes, or so.

I'm sitting here, while we're freshening up the house - with the windows open -wondering if I should search for "symptoms of hypothermia"....perhaps we should close them again soon lol

Maybe 20 minutes is optimistic today 😜 😂

Nice to have some fresh air though!

Woke up from a deep sleep at 1215, very confused, cos I could hear Jo's coughs in the distance

Checked several clocks all showing the same time, bit it was light outside

Very confused!! I couldn't recall her kiss me goodbye, like she always does

Turns out Jo didn't go to work, as the job she had to do today was cancelled

And I'd slept solidly til after lunchtime

Maybe I overdid it with that walk yesterday!!

Anyway...time for a rest, and let myself wake up!!

It really is the afternoon!!!!!

my latest post (and first for a while)

all to do with Covid, fear and God's perspective

Covid and The Golden Ticket

Take your mind back, and you might remember seeing the first signs that Covid-19 could well be a real issue, heading our way, like a freight train running along the tracks towards the edge of a cliff!

Scroll on a couple of years, and it is still making the lives of tens of millions of people difficult, at best. It has taken many loved ones from their family, way ahead of time, and it has created an abundance of fear.

We’ve seen governments, the media – and especially social media – capitalising on the fear of covid, to spread more fear for their own ends: as one doctor recently asked, where are the international campaigns, outrage and outcry about the dangers of eating too much sugar, or drinking too much alcohol: covid is indeed terrible, but there are other serious health issues out there too, which seem to have been forgotten about.

https://www.berrybunch.family/covid-and-the-golden-ticket/

Longer walk today.

Went easy up the [gentle] hill. My heart wanted to know what an earth I thought I was doing. Been a while!

Still. Home, tired and resting

30 minute walk under my own power today. Then, when Jo came home, I drove out to our local supermarket - which I really enjoyed...I've been getting a dry cough of an evening, but the Aircon sorted that straight away.... would've been useful knowing that a week ago!

Still, I'm getting slowly better, Jo is back to work, and the boys are back on their home ed

None of us is 100%, but we're all better than yesterday...and that matters!

Meanwhile, loads of Jo's colleagues are also going down with covid, many quite hard.

Thanks for your ongoing prayers

Onwards!!

Andy B