Thursday, December 3, 2009

it's terrifying...

how weird my heart is. We went to the cardiologist one time, they did some tests, and basically they said "Too bad for you, you've got some weird heart problems. There's nothing we can do, but you're probably not going to die or anything. You'll just have to freak out and scare everyone the rest of your life."

Basically, what will happen sometimes, either just out of the blue or when I was running or something, my heart will start beating really fast (which may seem normal, but I mean really, really fast) or slow or seemingly stop for a few minutes and sometimes I faint or almost faint and I'll get really confused and stuff. Drinking water does not help, because that's not the fixing the problem.

So a few days ago, in gym class, we were checking our pulse after we ran and then rested for a few minutes. No one could find my pulse. Everyone was confused and freaked out.

Then one time, what concerned me (and everyone else) is it was at 34 right after I just ran really fast. And also, it got really high once, I want to say 306, but I don't think that's possible, but it was ridiculous. Definitely above 200. And we definitely measured my pulse correctly, other people checked.

Yay for being a freak.