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10/11/2003 Archived Entry: "Well, I'm back"

...for my thrice monthly post.

Sorry about that, it's been pretty busy. I've been working a lot, and medical issues have come up. I keep feeling like the early-mid thirties is the time of your life when the medical issues first appear that will haunt you until you die. Ah well, hard to see what's going to happen in anyone's life. I just finished having a holter monitor on me for 24 hours. Nevermind the actually issues going on in my chest, which I can't even guess at yet - but that's the most annoying thing EVAR. Actually, it's probably a close second behind the 'monkey bandage' I wore when I broke my collarbone. That one lasted for weeks.

The holter monitor is basically a 24 hour EKG; it reads your heart's electrical impulses and records them on a regular cassette tape. It attaches to you with 5 wires which terminate in round, extremely sticky pads. How sticky? Well, sticky enough that pulling them off my sides caused broken blood vessels and bruising. I also have three round bald patches on my chest now. I look mangy. Ick. I slept horribly with it on, and worked from home the day after so I could sleep in a little. Now I need to wait and see what the doc says.