Heart Health Checkup

[themeatmanlandry]

I went to a HealthFair heart health checkup thing a couple of weeks ago. I got the results yersterday.

Why is it that my wife, who has been to some degree overweight for 90% of her entire life, gets all "normals" on hers, and mine comes back with some "abnormals" checked on it? Great, just %%%%ing great. You work out 4 nights a week for 23 years (on and off) and try to eat healthy stuff from time to time and this is your payback. Wonderful. I guess if I had lived a sedentary lifestyle, I'd already be in a hole somewhere.

Apparently, what I have isn't serious, but it ain't like I'm happy to hear that my heart rate is a little slow (sinus bradycardia, nothing serious) and my heart muscles don't get the signals they should in a timely fashion (bundle block partial, right side). The bundle block is apparently treated with a pacemaker when you get old. That's cool, pacemakers aren't all that bad.

So now I have to carry my $250 test results to a doctor, who will laugh it off and tell me everything's going to be okay . . . or maybe he'll pack me in bubble wrap, sedate me and prescribe a couch for the next 40 years. I'd just as soon slather my zipper in honey and sit in the bear cage at the zoo.

Anyway, I've researched some of it and it looks like none of this will require a change in lifestyle or anything. I just wonder what the future holds for people with these little heart problems . . . you know Mama just died at 59 and her dad went earlier than that. My daughter's only 3 1/2 . . . I don't wanna' die when she's in college.

Here's to hoping that I have my Dad's side's longevity (they often live into the mid-to-late 90's).

Anyone else have these %%%%tin' little heart irregularities?

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