Effyb4
Veteran
@SatNavSaysStraightOn perhaps I wasn't looking properly. I might be able to manage 100km (possibly)
Any survivors on here, cardiac arrest, heart attack, cancer....
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SatNavSaysStraightOn
Changed hemispheres!
- Location
- ɐᴉlɐɹʇsn∀ 'ɐɹɹǝquɐƆ
this year there was the option of both....I had just forgotten 
, given back in March a metric century was still a challenge for me. most people also seemed to be sticking with that ideal quite sensibly as well! just a couple of mad ones who thought a hilly imperial century was a good move...
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Most of us didn't do the 100 mile version, so it was just over 100 km (say 64 miles). The slow group that I went round in took all day, averaging probably only about 14 kph (9 mph)? We just bimbled along at our own pace, making sure that nobody got left behind. Ok, we thought somebody had fallen back, but it turned out that they had actually got ahead and it was the rest of us who had fallen back! (Confused waiting and searching resulted ...)
There will be a slow group again. Anyway ... full details in February, but it will be a rerun of this year's ride so you can read about that and you will get the idea!
Broughtonblue
Guru
- Location
- Norfolk
I take my hat (helmet?) off to you all, when you read stories like these it puts your own minor problems into perspective, but although my problems are minor compared, crap job, overweight etc, when you live with them everyday the feeling builds up!
Surely it shouldn't take a life or death situation to allow you to appreciate life for what it is? I'm writing this as I wait to do another horrible shift at work at 2pm.
Surely it shouldn't take a life or death situation to allow you to appreciate life for what it is? I'm writing this as I wait to do another horrible shift at work at 2pm.
classic33
Leg End Member
Well I've had the life or death experience, but wasn't around at the time. I came to in a hospital ward, on a ventilator with a tube stuck down my airway. Only found out the reason why later that day when the rounds were being done. There it was explained what had happened. My only clear recollection of that time was a doctor telling me he was going to put his knee on my throat so I didn't throw up like last time.
I've had the top cover pulled over me in A&E by a doctor, who upon seeing my left arm was blue, decided I'd popped me clogs. Don't know who was more scared, me at being pronounced dead o
r the doctor when the "deceased" started moving.
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It's easy to get bogged down in coping with life and what it throws at you, then you can loose sight of whats important, a close encounter with a major illness will tend to bring back into focus whats important.
classic33
Leg End Member
Slightly different approach taken. That was "Sod'em, I'm going to do what they say the condition should prevent me from doing".
So far the only thing I'm not able to do, is drive. Accepted that whilst still at Junior School, never made any attempt to learn either. Got the year clear(year & a day to be exact) thinking the limit was two.
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
You lot should all lighten up a bit and enjoy yourselves.....
......or buy a Tikker.
http://mytikker.com/
Posted recently on CC but deeply unappealing really.
......or buy a Tikker.
http://mytikker.com/
Posted recently on CC but deeply unappealing really.
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Colin_P
Guru
Well an interesting few days has just been had by me.
Massive increase of runs / salvos of VT over the last few days culminating in a huge one yesterday afternoon.
I actually went down anticipating a loss of consciousness and a shock from the ICD. I was certainly on the brink and by hitting the deck may have terminated it by doing so.
In a state of of panic, got up and got to the remote monitoring device, uploaded a report to the hospital, then called them five minutes later. Spoke to the EP (Electrophyiologist) who confirmed the increase in runs of VT and also that the big one was a run of VF / Torsades de Pointes which is a very serious rhythm for your heart to be in. Got told that the EP needed to have a chat with someone and that they would call back.
Fifteen minutes later got the call back, was asked if I could do another upload there and then, few more minutes on the phone, then EP looking at the report says I think you should come in.
Coming in means via A&E and then onto the cardio ward where they had a bed for me all arranged. The A&E bit should have meant a quick check in and a 'marshal' through but took quite a bit longer than that as I'm a rare case quite a few of the docs want to see me!
Anyway, eventually onto the cardio ward, loads of tests and good chat, an overnight stay for monitoring more tests and another chat. My meds have been increased which means I'll be even slower on the bike if I manage to get back on it at all.
Feeling a bit down at the moment.
Massive increase of runs / salvos of VT over the last few days culminating in a huge one yesterday afternoon.
I actually went down anticipating a loss of consciousness and a shock from the ICD. I was certainly on the brink and by hitting the deck may have terminated it by doing so.
In a state of of panic, got up and got to the remote monitoring device, uploaded a report to the hospital, then called them five minutes later. Spoke to the EP (Electrophyiologist) who confirmed the increase in runs of VT and also that the big one was a run of VF / Torsades de Pointes which is a very serious rhythm for your heart to be in. Got told that the EP needed to have a chat with someone and that they would call back.
Fifteen minutes later got the call back, was asked if I could do another upload there and then, few more minutes on the phone, then EP looking at the report says I think you should come in.
Coming in means via A&E and then onto the cardio ward where they had a bed for me all arranged. The A&E bit should have meant a quick check in and a 'marshal' through but took quite a bit longer than that as I'm a rare case quite a few of the docs want to see me!
Anyway, eventually onto the cardio ward, loads of tests and good chat, an overnight stay for monitoring more tests and another chat. My meds have been increased which means I'll be even slower on the bike if I manage to get back on it at all.
Feeling a bit down at the moment.
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Thats a bit of a barsteward, but at least all the monitoring kit got you the help you needed quickly, do you know what set it all off?
Sara_H
Guru
What a nightmare. Thank goodness you have all the kit and the medical attention you need on hand. It's difficult not to let things like this get you down. Just keep soldiering on, you know you'll come through it.
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Colin_P
Guru
Thanks Sarah and Effy,
It is tough to repeatedly get over events like this. The meds, well the flecainide is quite a toxic one. With the increase in both I'm preparing to be pretty well zonked out for a few days and as said if I ever do manage to get back on the bike I'll be slower if that it is at all possible.
It is tough to repeatedly get over events like this. The meds, well the flecainide is quite a toxic one. With the increase in both I'm preparing to be pretty well zonked out for a few days and as said if I ever do manage to get back on the bike I'll be slower if that it is at all possible.
classic33
Leg End Member
You'll be back on the bike believe me. Easy say, not as easy do I know.
But if you take the view now, that you'll not be back on the bike. The chances are you'll never get back on it. Set yourself the target of getting back on the bike with the knowledge that you have only yourself to beat.
I've been told repeatedly over the years that I might as well get rid of the bike as I'll never be able to get back on it.
Secondary target for you, Prove them wrong.
But if you take the view now, that you'll not be back on the bike. The chances are you'll never get back on it. Set yourself the target of getting back on the bike with the knowledge that you have only yourself to beat.
I've been told repeatedly over the years that I might as well get rid of the bike as I'll never be able to get back on it.
Secondary target for you, Prove them wrong.
