{"id":13693,"date":"2025-04-27T16:51:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T21:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=13693"},"modified":"2025-04-27T16:54:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T21:54:18","slug":"a-noticeable-improvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/13693","title":{"rendered":"A Noticeable Improvement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I do seem to be more &#8220;in the moment&#8221; now since I started taking this new heart medicine. It&#8217;s very much like what I experienced after the angioplasty with the resulting better blood flow. The world around me is more <em>There<\/em>. The afib hasn&#8217;t returned, and my energy level is noticeably better. I haven&#8217;t wanted to nap in two days. I think I&#8217;m also sleeping better.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m becoming convinced the atrial fibrillation was doing more to me than making my heart beat funny and putting me at risk of a stroke. It was also probably causing my nearly constant fatigue and fuzzy headedness, which I was just putting down to old age.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do seem to be more &#8220;in the moment&#8221; now since I started taking this new heart medicine. It&#8217;s very much like what I experienced after the angioplasty with the resulting better blood flow. The world around me is more There. The afib hasn&#8217;t returned, and my energy level is noticeably better. I haven&#8217;t wanted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[318],"class_list":["post-13693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-the-heart-patient-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13693"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13697,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13693\/revisions\/13697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}