All systems ago?

Not really.

Anyone ever been attached to an EKG? It's pretty cool. They actually attach 10 stickies to your chest and abdomen (I have adhesive allergies, so my frontside looked pretty cool for a couple days after!) and each sticky is attached to a wire connected to the computer. Every sticky picks up an electrical current (who knew we had so much electricity running through our bodies!) and each is a separate readout on the computer screen. There are 10 little lines spiking across the screen, and one EKG line that is the sum or average (?) of all the readouts. That's the line they look at to figure out if systems are ago. Well, when the assistant finished printing my rhythm and left me in the room alone with the machine I took the opportunity to fuck around with it a little. If you put your finger on one of the stickies, one of the little readouts looks like your in some kind of fibrilation and it fucks up the EKG line. It's a fun little toy to play with if you ever have the opportunity.

Anyways, the assistant left and a few minutes later the doctor came back in. Question. What would your reaction be if a doctor walked back into your room and said, "Your EKG was abnormal... but not in a dangerous way." I'm sorry, but that didn't sound so comforting to me. Basically my heart rhythm isn't regular - it beats 3 or 4 times at a steady pace and then skips a beat. On the EKG, it flatlines for a second or two and then my heart realizes that it's supposed to beat so it starts up again. Interesting... it explains my dizzy/fainting spells, at least! (And they always told me it was blood sugar...) So the next step is to see a cardiologist so that he can attach me to a monitor for 24 hours and see what my electrical systems do as I go through a "normal" day. They said that probably they will figure out that my condition - there is a name for it, but I forget what it is... some long medical term - is one that I can live with (since I have apparently for all my life) so they'll just make a note of it in my chart and keep tabs on it every now and then.

Yikes.