Spring Show Miracle 2024

July 6, 2024Posted inA-fib, Fancy, Missouri Fox Trotter
2024 Spring Show Poignant Surprise! 2022 Celebration Two years ago, when I was sitting in the Ava spectator seats for Ranch Horse Day, I told my new (probably irritated) best spectator friends why I wasn't showing in the Ranch Horse classes. I'd been showing in the prior Versatility events, and I knew they all missed me in the arena. While cleaning my horse's stall the day before, I got dizzy and almost felt like I would pass out. That evening, my pulse rate soared to 200-240 beats most of the…

AFIB after Ablation

November 15, 2023Posted inA-fib
March 2023, AFIB ablation operation done.  Overnight hospital stay and I ate full hospital food menu for two days.   Sadly, narcotic medicine is tough on releasing food from gut.  I became painfully constipated. Days later, I was at a performance event and was suffering.  I left at ntermission to go home and took 5 times the amount of constipation medication recommended.  I wanted to get that food out of my body. Whoops!  I became a bathroom prisoner.  Next stage of hell was unsuccessful exits from bed.  It was so…

Used up all my M&Ms and became a Country Song

September 22, 2021Posted inA-fib, Fancy, M&M
Per friend Apryl Ballard, “Every day you start out with a bag of M & M’s. When you run out of M & M’s, that is the end of your activity for the day.  You gracefully withdraw from activity and rest up for the start of another M & M day.” I had a full M&M day just recently, plus I borrowed some.  Thanks Apryl for the learning! I've become the “poster child for Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrial_fibrillationA-fib. I just got my new blood thinner for A-fib the day before this story.…