Rehabilitation blog - my story

[PeterJemmett]

If anyone is following my rehabilitation blog, I have just published the next chapter covering my fitness adventures from the first part of this year.

peterjemmett.blogspot.com/2...

[Zena166]

Just read it. Fascinating. I am still in the scaredy cat phase of balancing exercise with fear of too much. I recently had a problem with heart rate dropping to 30’s in the night and BP dropping to 85/60 making me feel unwell so stopped bisoprolol and it has come up but I want to be able to exercise more but now am concerned heart rate too fast to cope with increased exercise!!! I can’t win! There must be a balance to all this stuff!! Thanks for sharing I found it a good read. Best wishes Zena

[PeterJemmett in reply to Zena166]

Thanks Zena, I wrote the blog to share my own experience and hopefully inspire and encourage others who have suffered cardiac events. In the early stages you do need to restore your confidence and cardiac rehab is brilliant for this.

HR in the 30's is a bit worrying. I think mine has dropped because I am now much fitter.

[Zena166 in reply to PeterJemmett]

Hi Peter. Yes I did rehab last year and it worked a treat but since Christmas have had one ailment after another so haven’t been as active as I would have liked so need to build it back up. Glad you’re doing so well. Keep it up. I have exercise envy! Z

[Presco in reply to PeterJemmett]

Cardiac Rehab ...helped me emensly on my path to recovery

[NathanBlau]

Small world - I know your running mate Andy - we used to play rugby together!!

[PeterJemmett in reply to NathanBlau]

Me & Andy from today's parkrun ... flic.kr/p/283D32v

[NathanBlau in reply to PeterJemmett]

Say hello to him from me - he used to be quite rapid and played on the wing.

[PeterJemmett in reply to NathanBlau]

He's a quite enthusiastic & determined person and a really good pacer who understands my condition. He's now trying to persuade me to do a 10km run with him!

[PeterJemmett]

Since publishing the latest blog Friday afternoon it has received 163 page views, better than I expected plus I have received some really positive feedback which makes writing it all so worthwhile. Overall the whole blog has had 4008 page views.

I wrote the blog in the first place in the hope that it might offer help, encouragement or inspiration to others who have suffered a heart attack or anything similar and I have had several comments that it has achieved just that, one even from a jogger as he was passing me on the parkrun!

Please do share my blog with anyone who think might benefit from it - peterjemmett.blogspot.com/

[GBerserker]

Peter, great to see your blog. I’m also doing the same thing, in part to help me get my head around what happened to me and what is happening, but also to educate and to make others aware. Hopefully that way at least one person and their family will not have to go through what me and my family did and still are. Mine is 9daysinoldham.com Keep writing.

[PeterJemmett in reply to GBerserker]

Only had a quick scan through so far, but I like your style of writing.

Found the heart attack section very interesting. It didn't occur to me what I was having was a heart attack until they told after the tests in hospital and even then wasn't sure if I really believed them.

[GBerserker in reply to PeterJemmett]

Thanks Peter, I was having everything but a HA when I was having mine. I had convinced myself so much that I hadn’t had one that when they confirmed I had after my angiogram I was an inconsolable mess and they had to ask me to regulate my breathing so that they could put the stents in.