I slept well last night and got up bright and early this morning. I felt a little tired but fairly well-rested. I needed to eat breakfast much earlier than usual in order to get to my appointment with the cardiologist at 8:00 at Maccabi in town. I walked down to it.
Although my results from both the Holter test and the EKG are normal, he wants me to continue on the blood thinner and to get back on the Cardiloc (which he really never intended me to go off of in the first place). We talked mostly in Hebrew, but I used English a little to explain a few things and to make sure I understood accurately. Even though my AT (atrial fibrillation) doesn't seem to be showing up on the recent tests, the fact that I've had it means that it could return at any time. The AT, in and of itself, is not really the problem, since it seems to appear only sporadically and to go away immediately, at least so far. The problem is that a clump of blood could form in the heart during the irregularity of the beat and could then later be pumped out into the circulatory system, where it might get stuck, blocking blood flow to that part of the body. If "that part" happened to be somewhere in the brain, it could cause a stroke in the worst case or some temporary impairments in a less severe case. Since these are, of course, serious possible outcomes, it would be wise for me to take the medicine that may prevent the AT in the first place. I think I'm finally reconciled to this now. For some reason, in my mind, I've been rather resistant to the whole idea of my having any kind of heart problem. So, I'm glad that I'm getting more realistic. Luckily, this is NOT so serious in general, and my chance of dying from it, even without treatment is not too high.
After my appointment, I took a bus back home and arrived in plenty of time for my first class.
I taught 8 units of Berlitz lesson today: 9:00-10:30, 11:15-12:45, 5:00-6:30, and 7:00-8:30.
In the afternoon, I re-mastered a couple of tracks from my album of orchestral music (mostly a matter of setting them at a higher volume level) and recorded them (called "bouncing to disk"). I also bounced the latest version of the piece I'm working on throughout my current synthesizer class, which I've named "Funky Fugue". I intend to play these and some others, including my singing tracks, for the WIZO presentation I'll be doing tomorrow.
I had only a couple of cheese sandwiches (with mayonnaise and old-fashioned mustard) for lunch.
I walked a total of 2.3 kilometers today.
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