Before writing about what’s mentioned in today’s title, the most important event of the day should be mentioned: The whole hole was completely dug today and is now ready for the planting of the flowering bush for the hummingbirds. Photos above, of the finished hole and also a close-up to show that the measuring tape indicates it is about 28 or 29 inches deep, which is supposed to be optimal depth. After the bush is planted, I’ll try to put a photo of it in a future blog post.
The title of today’s blog post was chosen because I’m wondering whether or not it was a coincidence that yesterday’s heart hiccups (palpitations), which had bothered me all day and all through yesterday’s rowing, were remedied by taking 5 mg of Cetirizine yesterday evening. Cetirizine is the chemical name for the brand name antihistimine called Zyrtec.
Yesterday evening, I was still bothered with the heart hiccups and its BPM was a lot faster than normal. In the past, I’ve resorted to 1/2 tablet of Zyrtec some evenings, because though I have no allergies I’ve noticed that it helps me sleep through the night. Yesterday evening, I thought that if the heart hiccups continued, I’d have a hard time sleeping that night, so I took 1/2 a dose of Zyrtec (about 5 mg of Cetirizine) at about 8:30 or 9:00 pm. By 10:00 pm, the heart palpitations disappeared and the pulse returned to its normal resting rate. So I’m wondering if it was a coincidence or if taking the Cetirizine helped stop the palpitations. I may never know, but if it happens again, I’ll try Cetirizine again and see if the same results happen as promptly.
The above screenshots show yesterday’s recovery after rowing, when my heart barely slowed down even though I’d totally stopped rowing (the graph on the left) and today’s recovery (the graph on the right) when my heart slowed down quite normally. Curious, to say the least.
Today’s HR graph’s are much better looking than the sloppy HR graphs of yesterday, when there were heart hiccups throughout that session.
Happy rowing and hole-digging to you.