Oof (and other thoughts on afib)

I know there are different "types" of AFib (or durations), but I don't know how anyone lives with this stuff long-term. After having a 24-hour-ish episode yesterday I was just completely wiped out today.

Much like the other times, we'd had supper - actually, I was eating a bowl of frozen yogurt, and it's the second time it's happened with the yogurt - and I felt my chest start to flutter. That was Saturday evening. My heart rate wasn't super high, but my watch measures stress and it was up there (can't remember exactly where). We just went to bed and I hoped it would go away again like the previous time.

Unfortunately, I didn't sleep great and it was still there Sunday morning. I thought I'd go outside with no shirt on and maybe jolt myself back in rhythm. Nope. Take a cold shower. Nope (and I DO NOT like cold showers in case you're wondering). Anyway, we were greeters at church so we went and did that and stayed for the service but not the lunch. In the afternoon Anna had the championship game of her school's basketball tournament and we went to that. I never felt terrible, but had a stress level around 80-90 most of the day.

Finally, right around sundown we went for a walk in the cold. When we got back I was back in rhythm and we went to bed not long after.

I almost slept through the night (AFib makes me pee a lot) and only got up once. Otherwise I was just crashed until Jane got ready to leave at 7:30. I slogged to the couch with a cup of coffee... and pretty much just sat there for another few hours. I was wiped out. Spent. Very calm, nearly brain dead, and no desire to do much of anything. Around 10:45 I forced myself to eat some oatmeal and blueberries.

It was probably around 1pm before I actually got up and did some laundry, put the dishes away, cleaned the cat litter, and mopped the kitchen floor. I'm guessing that's about it for the day - other than I have a zoom meeting at 3pm for an hour.

So, another day in the life. One thing I wish I'd done sooner was start an 'AFib Journal.' It would save you from having to read things like this. Hopefully I'll get right on that. Maybe.

Here's an article on types of Atrial Fibrillation (in case you're interested): https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/atrial-fibrillation/types-atrial-fibrillation.