How a squiggly line can seriously unmake your day

yay! new post. so it has reached a point where even i'm a little flabbergasted on the direction my life is going. to say that it's a little out of my control now is well, a fuckin' understatement.

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I got my ECG results from a couple of months back. i wonder if that's still valid - i wasn't able to follow it up back then because of a lot of shit that happened - and most of them are still happening now. shit. there's this squiggly line in the remarks section that made my eyebrow twitch.

if i read it right, it says 'incomplete right bundle branch block' (incomplete RBBB). when me and SO (she's such a wonderful lady, bless her) read this, 'worried' barely covers our collective sentiment. but hey, we know shit about the cardiovascular system.

So when i got back home i looked for it (Google is God and Wikipedia is Its Disciple) it for what it is. and it seems an 'incomplete right bundle branch block' is not as life-threatening as it sounds. no arteries or valves are blocked; a 'bundle branch' refers to the nerves that control the electrical impulses that contract and release the ventricles of the heart so that the ventricles beat in sync. To quote wiki:

During a right bundle branch block, the right ventricle is not directly activated by impulses travelling through the right bundle branch. The left ventricle however, is still normally activated by the left bundle branch and these impulses travel through the left ventricle's myocardium to the right ventricle and activate the right ventricle.

In my case, an incomplete RBBB may mean nothing; or at most it may trigger a non-invasive search for underlying heart problems. if it was a left bundle branch block i should be more worried; RBBB is common and appears even on healthy individuals.  So there. not much to worry about. i hope. i'll go back to the Health Service to check on this when i get the time. i just hope that happens before i flop dead.

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laters.