When I was hospitalized for an unfortunate snake encounter (3 strikes after stepping on one) they wired me up to a cardio machine with this annoying low HR alarm. My resting HR is already low like any other swimmer, but one of the side effects of the venom, in addition to intense pain, is cardiovascular depression. Every time I started to rest the dang machine would start beeping. They had to continually reset it. The entire night was spent providing samples and hearing the annoying torturous beep.
The second night there I finally got to sleep and they thought I was dead.
When I was hospitalized for an unfortunate snake encounter (3 strikes after stepping on one) they wired me up to a cardio machine with this annoying low HR alarm. My resting HR is already low like any other swimmer, but one of the side effects of the venom, in addition to intense pain, is cardiovascular depression. Every time I started to rest the dang machine would start beeping. They had to continually reset it. The entire night was spent providing samples and hearing the annoying torturous beep.
The second night there I finally got to sleep and they thought I was dead.
