I mentioned yesterday that I purchased a heart monitor that sends information via bluetooth to my phone when I exercise. The whole setup is pretty neat. When I go for a walk, I get a report showing a map of where I walked (btw, I tend to walk in circles! Ha ha ha), how fast I went, how long I walked, altitude climb, and all kinds of nifty stuff.

I think I’ve mentioned this before, but I have monitors on my treadmill and the elliptical that will tell me what my heart rate is when I touch the heart rate monitor. I thought the elliptical was broken because my heart rate would be 180 then the next time I’d check it’d be at 60, up to 150 down to 50, up and down, up and down all while exercising at the same pace. My treadmill does the same thing. I told The Hubs about it, but he’s told me it’s just a glitch. I shrugged it off.

My cardiologist told me that I had an arrhythmia after wearing that heart monitor for a week a couple of years ago. I had no idea how much of one I had until I saw the report of my heart activity from the heart monitor I just bought. I didn't do any physical activity when I was wearing the heart monitor from the cardiologist (I couldn't because I had a broken foot), so I suppose I need to report this. My heart goes up and down in huge drops and climbs. It’s so frequent, that it almost looks like a heart beat on a monitor (but it’s not. The report I get shows spans of 5 minutes.) I showed it to The Hubs and he said, “Wow- that is really happening.” Duh.. I already told him that.

The idea of resuming this cardiologist stuff again makes me a crabby. I've been ignoring their calls for follow-up appointments because I can only mentally handle one physical issue at a time. I know this is probably irresponsible, but I'm going to wait until all my new dental work is done (yes, more backlash from when I fell on my face... the dentist said it could go on for five years after a crash like that.)

It's always something..... bleh.