Borg-lite

At last the electrodes arrived from Boston Scientific!!!

The Labor Day weekend really threw a monkey wrench into the mail.

The end of my cardiac study will be September 21, even though that is short of the 30 days that Dr. Cobb had prescribed.

That simply cannot be, as the company only allows the equipment to be out of their grasp for 35 days, maximum.

Last Tuesday was the last full day of monitoring, as I was plagued by "poor connection" alerts all day on Wednesday.

I'd hoped the new Borg set would arrive Saturday, as it was coming by UPS, but, no.

It did arrive earlier than expected today, though!

I've attached it to my body as proscribed: monitor affixed to dangle from a holder on my right chest, a green electrode affixed near-central along the right lower ribs, then a red electrode paralleling the same area on the left lower ribs.

It's much more comfortable than the other configuration ever was!

All of it is very light, and even the monitor feels lighter now that it can dangle.

They've included a plethora of little sticky electrode pads for me to use.

I wonder if I'm to replace them every other day?

Maybe they expect me to be super sweaty?

Well, it is September, even though it's a bit cooler than usual.

I do intend to mow the back yard some more tonight, as I did last night.

The grass is so crazy tall that the Ryobi has been struggling mightily.

Plus, I don't want to leave mulch, so I've been using the bag attachment, which has to be emptied at least four times before the battery dies.

Slow slogging, for sure, but I'll keep at it.

I wonder what that will look like in the cardiac monitor readings?

Guess me and Dr. Cobb will have an interesting talk in October!

(smile!)