Milestone

[johnp]

I had a sloppy run today. Surgery was on Dec 27 2010. No where close to my level of stamina pre op.

But at the end of my run, I looked down at my Garmin 310 XT GPS watch, at the "odometer" of total miles run:

500 miles

All of these miles were logged AFTER my first cardiac arrest, all while having severe MV prolapse and severe regurge. I picked up with the running again as soon as I physically could after surgery.

Now, after surgery and meds, I may not be as fast as I once was, but I am still going!

 

[Greg a]

Congrats on the energizer performance
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[nngbwh]

That is great to hear. Keep it running.

 

[SumoRunner]

Keep at it. It's primarily an endurance game in the long run.

 

[tprice54]

Good job! post op, any run is a good run!

 

[epstns]

Good to hear. I'm still waiting for the immediate post-surgical shake-out to see when I can get back to running. At the moment, when I try to jog short distances, I don't think my heart rate goes high enough to keep up with demand. (I'm paced, with max set at 130.) Once things heal a bit more, I can ask the EP to increase my pacer range, I guess. Hope we don't have a fight about it, though.

 

[kodi]

I had a sloppy run today.
Now, after surgery and meds, I may not be as fast as I once was, but I am still going!

I love your attitude and you are not alone here. We all have the bad days and we even have really good ones. I for one will never be where I was before my AVR but I'm still out there doing and it will take more than another AVR to get me to stop.

 

[spartangator]

Excellent stuff, John, and you're still so early in the game yet. There are many improvements to come still.

 

[scott.eitman]

Which are you bragging about the 500 miles or the GPS watch :smile2: Congratulations on your road to recovery. Soon you should be just as fast.

 

[johnp]

I had been running despite some serious issues with heart, including a March 09 shock from an ICD that was installed years earlier. I got that cool watch for Christmas 2009. I kept running and logged some miles. I went down again March 2010 while running and the ICD fired again. Then I had another espisode a few weeks later. Not sure how many miles I had by logged by then, but I scaled back with the running after the ICD went off again. Each time the ICD fired I was in VF. I passed out each time, but thats no picnic, I'll tell you that.

They started me on some new meds that made a huge difference, I had a new work-up which indicated I was a prime candidate for MV repair surgery. After a large number of visits to cardiac rehab post op the EKG showed I was very stable, so I felt comfortable to run some more. My HR is probably more stable than its been in years. Very very guarded optimism, but I somehow think I will run another 500 miles with this watch, at the very least.