In this video I talk about my visit to LifeLabs where I had to get my weekly INR bloodwork done to check out my blood clotting numbers (was a tad high). I also had to get an ECG done along with a Holter device put on so they can monitor my heart for a 20 hour period and see what's going on. All this is for my doctor at Saint Paul's Hospital as I have an appointment next week to go over how I am doing now. Hopefully we can make some medication adjustments as I feel I am taking a bit too much which is slowing down my heart and lowering my blood pressure a bit too much.

The medication doses I am on where set when I left the hospital and I was in AFIB with a very elevated heart rate. I have been out of AFIB and in Sinus heart rhythm now for at least a month and I can feel the low blood pressure especially when I get up from sitting down, I need to watch it or I could pass out! I get that the doctors want my heart to be resting and healing as much as possible but the lower heart rate (resting in the 50's) and low blood pressure (sometimes as low as 100 over 60) makes life a bit more challenging.

Every day I see progress and less pain in my chest (my sternum), but I still need to be careful not to overdo it in the gym or I could injure my sternum and set myself back a few weeks. Even this week I feel a lot more confident weight training and even added in some really light flies using cables for my chest. I look forward to being able to train harder as I do feel a lot less gassed out now and really the only thing holding me back is my ribs (sternum) healing fully and of course my week muscles :)