So today is my very special anniversary, its a year since I had heart surgery that changed my life for the better.
The story goes....
A year ago today I had electrophysioligal heart surgery to get rid of a extra node on my heart that was causing a electrical feedback at random times that would make my heart beat irregularly at up to 203bpm, I ended up in the Coronary Care unit and A&E in lister hospital a couple of times with all kinds if wires and and monitors strapped to me. So the good old NHS sent me to a specialist in South Kensington, they put me to sleep and made to key holes in the veins at the top of my legs and fed wires up the arteries until they reached my heart, they then stimulated different parts of the the heart with electric currents to find where the fault was, then they turned off my heart and restarted it and then burnt off the faulty node. Two weeks later and I was fully recovered and a 3 weeks later I was aloud to drink real caffeine and alcohol again and with no visible scars either.
So the year since it happened has been a really good experiance, I guess because I started living my life without fear and that is a freedom that is really hard to describe. Some of what should of been the best times of my life were marred by Ventricular Tacchycardia, getting pulled out of parties and off stage on a stretcher with a oxygen mask on is just not fun, I am thankful thats behind me and I have to say I feel like a totally different person now, a better stronger person for having gone through that. So I have much to celebrate!
I was starting to realize how awesome my life is of late anyways and the realisation it had been a year since my op has really supercharged that, I am truly grateful for my life, for my friends and family, for my gifts, for my good and bad experiances, for everything. And to think I almost gave all this up for someone else and nearley missed out...
On other notes, my sparring and meditation session was pretty awesome last night, especially the meditation part, sitting in a field and feeling my awareness expand to miles and being concious of the world around me was a great grounding experiance and I feel like its something I want to do more and more. I have found a local Jeet Kune Do class that I shall be attending soon aswell, I want another string to my bow and I think that will centre me nicely.
So... Its the weekend, I am getting on it like Donkey Kong tonight and tomorrow, which will be spanktacular! Nice to know I can recover at home as I am not working this weekend, so no repeat of the punishing work based hang overs I had last week!
And then on Sunday I am playing another warm up gig for ROTW, this time at the Ivory in hitchin, should be good fun. I am starting to enjoy this solo acoustic stuff now actually, even though I do miss being in a band.
I have a feeling everything will start going into warp speed and my weekend will be over before I know it, oh well, time flys when your having fun.....
x
The story goes....
A year ago today I had electrophysioligal heart surgery to get rid of a extra node on my heart that was causing a electrical feedback at random times that would make my heart beat irregularly at up to 203bpm, I ended up in the Coronary Care unit and A&E in lister hospital a couple of times with all kinds if wires and and monitors strapped to me. So the good old NHS sent me to a specialist in South Kensington, they put me to sleep and made to key holes in the veins at the top of my legs and fed wires up the arteries until they reached my heart, they then stimulated different parts of the the heart with electric currents to find where the fault was, then they turned off my heart and restarted it and then burnt off the faulty node. Two weeks later and I was fully recovered and a 3 weeks later I was aloud to drink real caffeine and alcohol again and with no visible scars either.
So the year since it happened has been a really good experiance, I guess because I started living my life without fear and that is a freedom that is really hard to describe. Some of what should of been the best times of my life were marred by Ventricular Tacchycardia, getting pulled out of parties and off stage on a stretcher with a oxygen mask on is just not fun, I am thankful thats behind me and I have to say I feel like a totally different person now, a better stronger person for having gone through that. So I have much to celebrate!
I was starting to realize how awesome my life is of late anyways and the realisation it had been a year since my op has really supercharged that, I am truly grateful for my life, for my friends and family, for my gifts, for my good and bad experiances, for everything. And to think I almost gave all this up for someone else and nearley missed out...
On other notes, my sparring and meditation session was pretty awesome last night, especially the meditation part, sitting in a field and feeling my awareness expand to miles and being concious of the world around me was a great grounding experiance and I feel like its something I want to do more and more. I have found a local Jeet Kune Do class that I shall be attending soon aswell, I want another string to my bow and I think that will centre me nicely.
So... Its the weekend, I am getting on it like Donkey Kong tonight and tomorrow, which will be spanktacular! Nice to know I can recover at home as I am not working this weekend, so no repeat of the punishing work based hang overs I had last week!
And then on Sunday I am playing another warm up gig for ROTW, this time at the Ivory in hitchin, should be good fun. I am starting to enjoy this solo acoustic stuff now actually, even though I do miss being in a band.
I have a feeling everything will start going into warp speed and my weekend will be over before I know it, oh well, time flys when your having fun.....
x