A Comforting Thought

I remember this time last year having really bad palps and I was praying to God, please let me live until Christmas so I can enjoy it with my children...it would be so hard on them to lose their mom right before Christmas,etc.  That is how scared I was.  Here it is a year later and I am still here.  Even with every day skips!! Yay Me!!!  Merry Christmas to you all and thanks for being there when the going gets rough!!!

[dolfnlvr]

I remember having those same thoughts so often over the past 6 years.  First with the onset of PVC's, then the ocular migraines, then the few sets of SVT.  Yay you!!! Yay us!!! Yay to us ALL!!!

Our kids will have the chance to put up with us for years to come :-).

Great thoughts for the day finetilthree.  Great thoughts!!!!!

[iamfaithful]

Wow, that has been my prayer THIS year.  In the summer I was praying to see the day my child got home from camp, and then it turned into seeing my oldest go to academy, on and on.  Now it has been please let me see Christmas and the New Year.  My palps were gone for the most part for the past few weeks, but they are back just in time for the holidays so I am back to the gloom and doom syndrome :-)  I just had a scary morning with lots of gas pressure in my chest and it was making my palps surface so I had to drink a soda for a little relief.  Oh I tell you, sometimes I don't know wether I am coming or going, but thank God that at least I am aware of whats going on and still pushing forward.

I hope you all have a safe and happy holiday season!!!!

[fearfactor]

Been there....I have prayed in the hospital with my heart beating fast and palps just to see my family ONE last time.  That was 4 years ago....thank God we are all still here!

Merry Christmas, Everyone!

[Uboat]

Is 2008 going to be the year that I prove my cardiologist wrong-- that these things actually will kill me? In spite of reassurances during my appointments I always have it in my head that there's something the tests missed, a killer palp lurking beneath the surface waiting to strike.

I thought 2007 might be the year that would happen. I also felt that way about 2006, 2005, 2004 and 2003.

I'm still here, hoping I'm wrong again.

[dolfnlvr]

Yup.  You are wrong.  I'm just telling you that so that you can smile and enjoy 2008.  We are all going to continue to be okay.  And, next year, we'll be typing in the happy thought that it has been another year and our kids have grown older and accomplished new things, and we were there to see it.  

That's the way it is.  And, that's the way it's going to be.  Just have a little faith, the doctors are not lying to us.

Merry Holidays everyone!!

[finetilthree]

I am happy that I posted this thread.  It is even more comforting to know I am not the only one that feels this way.  Thanks to you all for your comments.

[Artaud]

Hi,

As one of the previous posters said, "Been there". It's too bad that it takes such a toll on us, so many people have scads of PVCs and aren't aware that they are having them.

As I said before, for many of us that have nuisance levels of PVCs, yet no real problems, try to reassure yourself that your hearts, often seen on an EKG and listened to at least yearly by your Doctors or Cardiologists, can be counted on to continue beating much more reliably than many people with serious arrhythmias that are not aware of them. There can be abnormal results in the EKG that warrant immediate hospitalization that produce no or minor symptoms.

MERRY CHRISTMAS to all, and to all a normal Heart Rhythm ;-)

This is a direct quote from a Santa Claus years ago that suffered with benign PVCs, look it up on Wikipedia. (not ;-)

Best to all.

[marlinspike]

Been there so many times - when I first started with my missed beats (August 2004) I couldn't even think about Christmas because I didn't think I would be there to see it. Three years on I am much better (bad night/day with missed beats and anxiety today, though) - anyone in the same position now, please don't ever think it cannot get better. There must have been hundreds (if not thousands) of missed beats a day in my pulse when I was first diagnosed. Now I get occasional spells of them (bringing with them anxiety and panic), but they are far less frequent. I wish I put my finger on what it is that has made them decline, so I could help you guys out more,  

This forum is a great comfort to me - especially when I hear of so many posters who have had thousands of pvc's a day for many years. Happy Christmas to you all from the UK.

[PVC man]

Just goes to show us PVCers feel like we are going to drop dead any minute but probably (with God's good graces) we can live to complain about them until age 94....lol

It really IS amazing though as I sometimes lie awake when they are bad and wonder how the heck I'm living through it...VERY bizarre but very grateful...

Happy and HEALTHY and rhymic Christmas all...

[anacyde]

Great thread!

My dad, once when I was just terrified of my palps, told me a story that stays with me.  There was this guy he knew back when he was a kid.  Apparently the guy's heart always "skipped around".  Turns out he made it to the ripe old age of 97, and never had a heart problem!

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and PALP-FREE DAYS TO YOU ALL!!!