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Journals
ummm...my chest is beeping....
- By mery · Posted August 29, 2009
- 16 replies
- Ok, so I get up this morning and I'm sitting in the bathroom, just sitting, yawning and what not, ya know the regular morning bathroom stuff....and I'm hearing this beeping. So I look all around like ...
V tach and V fib with cardiac sarcoidosis?
- By mamayama · Posted August 24, 2009
- 11 replies
- Just checking to see if there's anyone out there experiencing arrythmias vtach and v fib due to scarring from the sarcoidosis? Really need to connect as iam very scared, hoping our lord will give me strength ...
On the King's Highway - problems with hip and back
- By Great-gram · Posted August 16, 2009
- 0 replies
- Hi! everyone - sure has been a bumpy road lately. My husband got out the hospital just in time to take care of us. Plumbing under the sink went - he semi took care of it. Will need a plumber this time ...
Long QT Syndrome
- By tones005 · Posted August 16, 2009
- 3 replies
- Recently I have found out that people in my family have been diagnosed with LQTS. Through out the years I have had symptoms of this and will be going for my test on October 6th.... This is the beginning ...
Answered Prayer on the Jericho Road
- By Great-gram · Posted August 12, 2009
- 2 replies
- Thanks be to God and thanks to all of you. I just shared all of the responses with my husband. He is now home. No diagnosis - but then, that is not necessary when God is at work. We can never get too ...
On the Jericho Road - In Need of Prayers
- By Great-gram · Posted August 10, 2009
- 28 replies
- Hi! Just asking all of you to pray for my husband. He took ill last night; we went to the doctor this morning - he sent us to the ER because his blood pressure is so low, (systolic went down to 60 while ...
Scheduled maintenance this evening
- By TeamInspire · Posted August 10, 2009
- 13 replies
- All, Inspire will be performing database updates this evening starting at 8:00 Eastern. We expect the updates to take no more than 2 hours and the site will be unavailable at this time. We thank you for ...
Heading out of town to see Mom
- By careh · Posted August 9, 2009
- 4 replies
- I am leaving on the first flight out tomorrow (makes me think of Peter, Paul, and Mary) to spend 17 days back in Michigan with my Mom. I do not have internet access there, but I do want you all to know ...
Taraveling on the King's Highway - enjoying the family
- By Great-gram · Posted July 23, 2009
- 2 replies
- Greetings! Last Friday was my husband's family reunion and it was really a fun time, even though in some ways it was bittersweet. I had choices - choices to enjoy or to complain - choices to have a pity ...
icd question == resetting
- By Tch4fn · Posted July 19, 2009
- 3 replies
- Hello everyone! I had a great check-up Friday. ICD incision looks great. My ecg still shows qt of 470, this seems to be my magic number. I would love to see it lower. I am doing everything that I know ...
Made it to the top of the lighthouse!
- By careh · Posted July 16, 2009
- 7 replies
- I was able to take a trip last weekend to the beautiful Oregon coast, which included a tour of historic Haceta Head lighthouse near Florence. My family wasn't sure about the half mile climb to the lighthouse ...
Applying for Disability
- By ConnieB · Posted June 30, 2009
- 24 replies
- I live in Virginia I will 60 years old in Aug., I had a heart attack 5 years ago, I had a stent placed. Last year I had a difibillator implanted. I was layed off of my job in February, so I am not working ...
Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder..it has a name??
- By eviefor3 · Posted June 29, 2009
- 12 replies
- finally........a name for what so many of us go through every day. now i have a LEGITIMATE excuse for what i do lol A. A. A. D. D.: Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder. This is how it manifests ...
O2 Annie - Just checking in!
- By frogcollector · Posted June 25, 2009
- 9 replies
- Thought I would check in after such a long silence. I no longer need the 'Metro' RX...Metoprolal. The O2 has stopped the SVT events entirely. Staying on the O2 for now...it works so why change anything ...
On the King's Highway - I only hurt a little
- By Great-gram · Posted June 22, 2009
- 0 replies
- Hi all! Today is today. Wow! Managed to get the office work done - and sit in on the tail-end of prayer meeting. It's pretty bad, when you work in the church building and can't get to prayer meeting ...
On the King's Highway - Living in the now! With sarc; heart problems ++++
- By Great-gram · Posted June 21, 2009
- 4 replies
- Greetings! Life keeps on being interesting, certainly not boring. Wish I didn't have brain fog! Actually there are a lot of things I wished I didn't have. Funny, not too many things that I wish I had ...
Idiopathic nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy
- By Brianne · Posted June 21, 2009
- 4 replies
- Finally got the results of the genetic testing for my Long QT back... Turns out I do not have any gene abnormalities showing that the Long QT was inherited. (Still don't know why I have it.) I am shocked ...
Share your story via video!
- By TeamInspire · Posted June 15, 2009
- 28 replies
- Sometimes the most powerful message each of us can share is our personal story -- our own experience. With upcoming healthcare legislation pending, one way we can be advocates is to share these stories ...
ICD - subdermal or subpectoral?? Help!
- By MissCaro · Posted June 15, 2009
- 17 replies
- I've just been given the news that I need an ICD because of my regular bouts of VT and the unsuccessful ablations. Apparently I have ARVD which is a degenerative disease so the need for an ICD will become ...
Heart Palps. and Allergy Meds
- By JulesAN · Posted June 12, 2009
- 19 replies
- If anyone has any advice on this I would greatly appreciate it! I have allergies and at times get horrible sinus headaches. I also have a heart condition in which I get palpitations. The problem is… I ...
