POP! Goes my heart! (Supraventricular Tachycardia)

Sickboy

CBC

Society & Culture

4.8 • 524 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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This week on Sickboy we sit down with Haley and talk heart stuff, time bombs and the most ideal place to stick a catheter in your body. What is a high heart beat? 150 bpm? 180bpm? Try 260….while sitting still….for 6 hours. For Haley, this is all apart of an episode of Supraventricular Tachycardia, or more boringly referred to as SVT. Having to take drugs that give you the feeling of imminent death and shoving catheters up through your crotch are a just a part of the experience. Join us for an ever-riveting conversation about the absurdity of living illness.

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0:43.1	Welcome to Sick Boy, a podcast where we talk about what it's like to be sick.
0:44.6	This week's guest is Haley.
0:46.8	She has superventricular tachycardia.
0:48.0	Let's talk about it. Remember Jeff's member
0:57.6	Lones's wedding there was a bunch of liquid on the floor and that was not good
1:01.3	no it was all alcohol yeah it was a real gross adds a little bit of stick to it so
1:06.8	yeah exactly at first it was like a hazard and then it was actually a safety precaution.
1:11.5	Yeah. Yeah. Speaking of alcohol all over the floor, Haley, tell us about your issues with your heart.
1:19.4	Yeah. So intertwined those two things. That was such a great lead in. That's what I do best.
1:25.4	I actually found out that I had a heart condition when I was in grade nine.
1:29.7	So apparently I'd been living with this thing forever and had no idea.
1:34.2	That sounds dangerous.
1:35.6	Yeah.
1:36.1	It sounds dangerous to be living with that for that long and not knowing.
1:40.6	Yeah, except I guess it's more so the nature of how the heart condition develops.
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