Today’s announcement: I have entered the world of wearable health tech. This was not planned. In fact, it’s something I’ve avoided, because I didn’t want to obsess about how many steps I’ve taken each day. However, I learned some things from my heart study that made this a priority. So I am now wearing my […]

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Last Thursday afternoon I got a call from my cardiologist’s nurse. She was checking in on how I was doing with my heart study, if I’d had any issues or symptoms. So I told her that the monitor had collected plenty of data, given that my arrhythmia had been quite active at various points over […]

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Years ago, early in my life with scleroderma, I developed an arrhythmia. For decades now, my heart occasionally feels like it’s skipping a beat. Actually, however, as my cardiologist has explained to me, I’m having an extra contraction. It gets worse when I’m stressed and is my orange alert to slow down, examine what’s going […]

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