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Heart Rhythm Conditions | Last Active: Nov 17 11:58am | Replies (73)
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Replies to "Maybe it's a personality thing. When my Afib was wild...like all the time and meds were..."
I can identify with that. That's how I feel. There is one woman here (I'd never met her before) that I've talked to that has afib, and she helped me cope when I first got diagnosed. She's older than I am, but has grandchildren also and like me, has to keep it together for their sake. But, I definitely fell into the helpless victim role and went inward. I still don't want to get out there and go to the group meetings that I used to go to because I have found so far that people expect me to be exactly who I was--very healthy. I told one of the group's leaders about my diagnosis and a couple hours she later asked me to do something (a small thing, but . . . ) for the group. It's like people don't know what it's like (it's just a heart condition after all, people get those all the time), and I get upset and withdraw. I need a little time to adjust to having a crazy, unpredictable heart and then I think I will be fine, but I hesitate to commit right now. Now, if I still had children at home and still worked, boy that would be tough. You CANNOT withdraw and go inside yourself. You can't take time to adjust and think about just you. Yeah, I don't know how I would handle that. I have to hand it to you ladies.