I stayed home from work today (but taught my class) to catch up on rest. I also looked up my diagnoses (premature ventricular contractions and sustained ventricular tachycardia) online (it's weird that I didn't do that in the hospital, but it's probably because I spent most of my internet time looking for stuff about the medicine and fetuses), and it made me kind of scared. Most of my worry had been about how everything would affect the baby, and I forgot to worry about what could potentially happen to me. Anyway...I've decided to stop looking up things on the internet for awhile. :) I went to the gym with Eric in the evening since I'm supposed to do whatever physical activity feels okay, and I just did some super wimpy walking with a small incline on the treadmill for an hour. I was kind of scared to do it, but I figured that whatever's wrong with my heart is better now than it was a week ago, and I exercised a week ago and was fine. It felt good to move my legs, and I didn't at all feel dizzy or light-headed, but I'm pretty sure (according to the monitor on the treadmill, but who knows how accurate those are so also Eric checked) that my heart rate didn't get above about 55. That seemed weird to me, so I'll ask the doctor about it today. I actually felt really good for the rest of the night, though (no palpitations). And I decided to stop judging people who look like they're doing wussy workouts on the treadmill.
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