My Life / My Thoughts
My Yearly Checkup. It was that time of the year again for my yearly checkup. The checkup of the pacemaker. To see if things are okay. I thought it was always at the beginning of the year, but it was moved a few times because of the pandemic. that is why it is now in Read More…
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Heart failure. It’s For Life Heart Failure. It’s for life. Why write a post about this? And why is it for life? In 2018 it was discovered during a regular heart checkup, that I had heart failure. When I heard it, it had a big impact on me. But it also can have an impact Read More…
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Health check-update. It is a new year again, and it is time again for my health check-update. Right now it is only the first week of February, and so far I had already three appointments in the hospital. I also already have two more appointments coming soon. The kidney stone update. January 24, 2021, I Read More…
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Not Normal (and more) The weather temperatures we have at this moment is not normal.Especially for people with illness or chronic issues. For example people with heart problems.Like me.This very warm weather is not good.At this moment, the temperature is around 34 degrees and in the coming days, this will go up further. The warmer Read More…
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Time for my checkup. End of January 2020Time again for my 6 months checkup of the Pacemaker/ICD.And time for my yearly talk with the cardiologist. For the Pacemaker checkup, they will put something that looks like a computer mouse, on the place where the Pacemaker is implanted.This is a “receiver” and it’s connected to a Read More…
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Things are stable. At the end of November 2019, I had my regular half-year meeting at the heart failure department.This is just a talk to see how things are. They will check your “dairy” to see if your weight and blood pressure are ok or if there are any remarks.So far things are looking ok. Read More…
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Still tired quick. It’s been already a few weeks after my optimization echo but so far I did not notice any improvement. The other day I was carrying a crate to the car.In it were 3 glass platers with some desert.Maybe I had to carry it for a 50 to 100meters, to the car.This felt Read More…
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Optimization Echo Finally, after waiting for the holidays to be over, I got my appointment for the optimization echo.With this echo, they want to try to find the optimum setting for the pacemaker, to let the heart work at his optimum best. This is not a guarantee, but at least we could give it a Read More…
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(Revised/Updated on Oct. 1, 2020) Wires in my heart. If you had read the previous posts, you already have some idea what I mean by the title, “Wires in my heart”. Already since 2013, I have a pacemaker.At first, you think about the “machine” that they will place inside your body.But after some time, you Read More…
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(Revised/Updated on Sep. 23, 2020) My yearly heart checkup. The last few days/weeks were a bit busy and we had really hot weather here this summer.Hot weather is not really good for me because, with warm weather, the heart needs to work harder. At the beginning of this month, it was time again for my Read More…
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