A near-death experience left the actor with a sacred knowledge sure to ruin your plans for the great beyond

  • @jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    135 months ago

    Back in January, in the hospital, my heart stopped for 8 seconds. I was asleep, I had no idea. I woke up and was fiddling on my phone, nurse comes in:

    “Were you asleep about an hour ago?”

    “Yeah, why?”

    “Your heart stopped for 8 seconds.”

    “Um… thank you? I don’t know how to respond to that…”

    I have a heart monitor connected to my phone now, continuously monitoring. It’s stopped a few more times since then, 4 seconds here, 5 seconds there. Doc says not to worry about it, no cause for a pacemaker yet.

      • @jordanlund@lemmy.world
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        15 months ago

        Oh, yeah, that was the 2nd night in the hospital… 1st night it was the same scenario:

        “Were you asleep about an hour ago?”

        “Yeah, why?”

        “Your heart rate dropped to 40.”

        “Um… is that… bad? I don’t know these things…”

        Apparently, yeah, for heart patients a resting heart rate of 40 is bad (Bradycardia).