Heart Rate

In my youth, my resting heartrate used to average around 80 bpm. As I got older and began to workout more, it started to average less.

Working in a hospital, I was always told that this was good! That it meant I was healthy working my heart out. I even read an article...I believe it was in a runner's magazine, where they discussed how runners tend to have really low heart rates.

I went through most of my adult life monitoring my heart rate and it has always been low. It never worried me. But now I'm being told that it's too slow sometimes.

During my infusions for example. My vitals are always taken and my heart rate will usually become the topic du jour. I go for my monthly infusion every twenty-eight days. I've begun to wonder if I should do a few jumping jacks before they hook me up. Because it never fails that the conversation inevitably becomes about how I feel, does anyone else in my family suffer from or have bradycardia?

A few days ago it was fifty. I've been walking around, I feel fine. A little cold. But fine!

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Sometimes I'm glad they aren't around to see my sleeping or watching TV heart rates, because those numbers are in the low forties. My watch yells at me because I can't do an "EKG" when my heart rate is below forty-five.

It's just so odd cause my husband's runs high and mine runs low. We were obviously meant for each other!