Mystang's Homesteading Circus

Greybeard: you are correct. It was just sitting in the middle of the creek on a ledge of flat rock.

Had to go in today for an echo grab of my heart and get a Holter moniter to wear for 24 hours. Apparently my doctor want happy that my heart rate was low. Been that way my whole life. Heart rate today was 44. I'm starting to be amused by the reactions of the nurses when they take my BP and heart rate. Their face... My face
.... Them they proceed to retake everything like their machine was broke and it then comes up the same. Doc got tired of that so she ordered this stuff. I'm a little miffed at it because I'm taking up slots of time that people who actually really need the echo gram could use and using a monitor that people who need to use it now don't have access to.

The nurse doing the echo told the fellow in there that this was one of the clearest hearts that she'd seen. There was also a student in there with them. I felt like a cadaver lol. And these leads on the monitor are KILLING with how much they itch. Doc told me that I could spend the day doing what I normally do before I got this thing. Nurse said the same thing today. I went to the guy who actually hands them out and he said the same thing. THEN he said that I shouldn't do anything that causes me to sweat lots so the tape wouldn't come off.... Soooooo, don't do what I normally would today I asked? He looked at me crazy and I told him I had a fence to put up, walls to shore up on the garage, and a farm to take care of in general. Told me to take the day off. Silly man, I don't get days off.

Came home and immediately started getting things done. Hey, if they want to know what my heart normally does then I need to act normal right.

Anyway, all the holes are dug, just need concrete. All posts are in.

Walls that were peeling away from the frame on the old garage see all mailed back in place too.

We have a family reunion at our house on Saturday so lots of cleaning to be done. The garage was finished today. Tomorrow, we do the workshop.

mystang89 said:

Came home and immediately started getting things done. Hey, if they want to know what my heart normally does then I need to act normal right.

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That sure seems reasonable to me. Maybe you are the opposite of people afflicted with "white coat hypertension".

mystang89 said:

Walls that were peeling away from the frame on the old garage see all mailed back in place too.

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Wow is your spell "fixer" working overtime!

Bruce said:

Wow is your spell "fixer" working overtime!

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LOL, I think my phone does it to me in purpose.

That was supposed to say something about all NAILED back in place. AI at it's best!

I think doctors and nurses like to see people with high blood pressure, they can poke pills at their patients. Low BP, that bumfuzzles them. Congratulations.

I've spent extra 24 hrs in hospital because of low heart rates, always because the on-call dr or charge nurse wanted it, then my cardio people would come in and tell them "We know him well. That's normal for him".
(I've never had anyone try to prescribe me anything to raise my heart rate or bp)
I do think tho, the girls at the nurse station just get tired of the alarms going off as soon as I doze off to sleep. My normal while sitting now, is around 52-55 bpm, but by concentrating, I can get it down to mid 40s and that's where it is most of the time I'm asleep, depending which dream I'm having. Right after a meal (like right now) can get it up a little)
Not bad for a 68year old male American..

That's pretty healthy greybeard! When I asked the fellow yesterday about why it's so low he said that people who are very active and typically in good shape tend to have lower heartrates. This is because the heart has "learned"to be more efficient at distributing the blood so it doesn't have to work as hard. I was told that many atheletes have heatrates around 44. I'm only 35 so I'm not surprised. I have 8 children that keep me running and work on a farm all day. My brother is 44, has 13 children and works out everyday. He told me his heartrate is always upper 40 's -lower 50's.

Couple more hours left to get this sticky, itchy tape off.

Hmmm.....guess I should check my HR, my BP is always 120/63. I am a 63 year old white female and take no medications. Now I am curious.

Sounds good to me but I'm no where near medically qualified. Think they said mine was 116/..... Something. I don't know. I'm alive, I feel fine and I still have use of my cognitive functions lol. That's all I care about.

The little programmable wrist monitors I pictured are extremely affordable nowadays, tho my wife has the more traditional upper cuff (sphygmomanometer) as well. They, are often even less expensive.
https://www.cvs.com/shop/cvs-health-self-taking-blood-pressure-monitor-prodid-800232?skuId=800232

She ordered her's tho from Allheart and it's Prestige brand. It was about x2 the price of the CVS gage.

mystang89 said:

Think they said mine was 116/..... Something. I don't know.

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