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In December 2020, I knew something was wrong with my heart. No matter what I did, I could not get my heart rate to fall below 190 beats per minute (bpm). It felt like my heart was beating into my throat, and I was always exhausted. I had lots of heart palpitations and felt like I was having a heart attack.
I come from a family of firefighters, so I went to my local fire station to receive help. I was immediately taken to the hospital, where doctors confirmed with an EKG that I had a shockingly high resting heart rate of 190—that’s when I was diagnosed with supraventricular tachycardia (an irregularly fast heartbeat).
As a result, I had to have surgery, a catheter ablation, which uses energy to make small scars in your heart tissue to prevent abnormal electrical signals from moving through your heart. It was a minimally invasive transcatheter structural heart surgery. This involves guiding a long, thin, flexible tube called a catheter to your heart through blood vessels that can be accessed from the groin.
After having surgery and resting for a few months, I started my recovery process. Although I wanted to start running, my doctors suggested I start with walking. I walked around my neighborhood to begin with, to build up my energy and muscles.  In December 2020, I knew something was wrong with my heart. No matter what I did, I could not get my heart rate to fall below 190 beats per minute (bpm). It felt like my heart was beating into my throat, and I was always exhausted. I had lots of heart palpitations and felt like I was having a heart attack.
I come from a family of firefighters, so I went to my local fire station to receive help. I was immediately taken to the hospital, where doctors confirmed with an EKG that I had a shockingly high resting heart rate of 190—that’s when I was diagnosed with supraventricular tachycardia (an irregularly fast heartbeat).
As a result, I had to have surgery, a catheter ablation, which uses energy to make small scars in your heart tissue to prevent abnormal electrical signals from moving through your heart. It was a minimally invasive transcatheter structural heart surgery. This involves guiding a long, thin, flexible tube called a catheter to your heart through blood vessels that can be accessed from the groin.
After having surgery and resting for a few months, I started my recovery process. Although I wanted to start running, my doctors suggested I start with walking. I walked around my neighborhood to begin with, to build up my energy and muscles. |
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