Personal Narrative: Sinus Tachycardia

Tachycardia: Tachycardia typically refers to a heart rate that exceeds the normal range for a resting heart rate. When the heart beats rapidly, the heart pumps less efficiently and provides less blood flow to the body and the heart. The rapid heartbeat increases the workload and oxygen demand of the heart. Problems will occur with the heart as tachycardia persists over time. The heart is maintaining less oxygen, which will lead to an MI due to death of the myocardial cells. Patient will start to have angina because of this. Tachycardia is noted in many diseases and disorder like: fever endocarditis, anemia, HTN, pericarditis, abnormal heart impulses, anxiety, older age, sleep apnea, COPD, electrolyte imbalances, and many more.

This summer I attended the Metro Detroit Heart Walk benefitting the American Heart Association. It’s a walk or run race that started at Ford Field and span five kilometers throughout the streets of downtown Detroit preceded by a short informative event. I'd been asked to compete by my godmother Sandy, who works for a Henry Ford hospital, one of the event sponsors. I decided the run the race, even though I’m probably the least athletic person in the world. I wanted to challenge myself and make Sandy happy.

In Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Tell-Tale Heart,” a man is murdered and dismembered at the hand of an insane unnamed narrator. The narrator goes on to defend his sanity by pushing the audience question what it means to be sane. When an opportunity arises for the narrator to convince officers that all is normal, he collapses under the weight of his guilty conscious. The actions of the unnamed narrator illustrate an image of today’s society and its view of mental illnesses, but overall makes the audience question the meaning of insanity.

In April of last year, I experienced the worst panic attack of my life; all feeling left my body and I felt as if I was already gone. My mom rushed me to the ER, where I was told to visit a cardiologist. When I went to the cardiologist, one of the nurses performed an echocardiogram on me. She was focused on the screen, not realizing that the jelly on my chest was dry until the device no longer moved smoothly; this is how I knew something was wrong. I later found out that my blood was mixing because one of my heart vessels, which was supposed to close days after birth, was still open. The cardiologist said that I needed to have surgery, and I was

In “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, the main character, the narrator, kills the old man because he disliked his eye. He claims his motivation is neither the old man wronging him nor desire for money, but rather a fear of the man’s pale blue eye. The narrator insists that he is not crazy, even though he goes to the elderly man’s apartment and observes the man sleeping. The narrator shows clear signs of insanity by having no reason or killing the old man, confessing to the perfect crime, and enjoying murdering an innocent person.

1. Why are the centuries of the Tang and song dynasties in China sometimes referred to as a “golden age”?

As Steinbeck starts to enter into the southern states he already knows what to expect. He is already worried about the racism he will see. Steinbeck, like I, was raised in a family and area where prejudice was not around him. When you grow up with the idea of equality actually being equal it comes as a shock to hear about things like the separate but equal doctrine. Steinbeck introduces the problem “that an original sin of fathers was being visited on the children of succeeding generations” (245). Out of all the wise words Steinbeck said perhaps these were his wisest.

Washington DC is the capital of the United States of America and the home of the president´s country, it has the majority of the political scene but contrary to other opinions, there are others scenes that we can appreciate, for example, culture, architecture, entertaining, and restaurants.

In the short story Tell Tale Heart by Edger Allen Poe have shown use that the narrator of the story is insane. The man is not seeing things clearly and sees the man's eyes as if they are eyes of vultures. Another thing is that he has been watch the old man at night when the old man is asleep if that’s not strange to you then what is? I will be defending the narrator and get him a insanity plead.

Reaching across the center console of my car, I imagined the commute that I had into school. My 1992 Jeep Cherokee courageously braved the snowstorm of the year, with only one functional windshield wiper and a forlorn four wheel drive system. As I turned onto the Merritt Parkway, a Honda Civic swerved past me and proceeded to weave in and out of the afternoon traffic. Fast-forward sixty seconds and that Honda was now engulfed by the powder white trees which bound the highway. Instinctively, I pulled up behind the crash site, dialing 911 as I ran over to the mangled wreck. I peered into the car, my pupils the size of marbles, and the driver seemed uninjured; regardless, I proceeded to reassure the driver that Emergency Medical Technician’s/Paramedic’s

The behavior of the narrator in The Tell-Tale heart demonstrate characteristic that are associated with people with obsessive-compulsive disorder and paranoid schizophrenia . When Poe wrote this story in 1843 obsessive-compulsive disorder and paranoia had not been discovered. However in modern times the characteristics demonstrated by the narrator leads people to believe that he has a mental illness. Poe’s narrator demonstrates classic signs throughout the story leading the reader to believe that this character is mad

The heart is one of the most important organs in an organism’s body, no matter if they are aquatic, amphibian, or a mammal. This super organ works automatically, able to pump massive amounts of oxygen rich blood through the body by means of electrical impulses and the opening and closing of valves within its many layers. It is what keeps us and every other creature on this earth alive; so it is only natural for one to fear when there might be a problem with one’s heart. A cardiac arrhythmia can happen to anyone, no matter the age, race, or gender, and as such, doctors and scientist have spent years trying to better understand the heart and the way it functions so that they can try to prevent these problems and save millions of lives.

Edgar Allan Poe is a peculiar author who wrote many short stories that made his readers question his sanity. One of his stories being “The Tell Tale Heart” about a man whose obsessions make him kill another man. The story is told in first person as it deals with a man’s mental state and his and his fall into madness. The protagonist is the one telling his own story about his obsession with the old man’s eye. The man for eight consecutive nights stands in the doorway of the old man’s chamber patiently waiting to commit what he thought was the only way to relieve him of his obsession. The man than proceeded to murder the old man and cover it up as best as he could. However, he was driven mad by the heartbeat of the old man and confessed his actions

As I’m on the way to the hospital with tears rolling down my face, I cling to my chest with complete agony. I can’t breathe without my chest feeling like it is going to collapse. If I move the wrong way, a sharp-shooting pain runs through my body and I began to cry more because I don’t know why this is happening. When I get to the hospital, I go right into triage because hospitals take chest pains very serious. When I go back to the little room, the nurse asks me several questions, takes my temperature and blood pressure, and then runs an electrocardiogram, or ECG/EKG, on me to check my heart. At this point, I’m freaking out even more because the nurse thinks something is wrong with my heart. Therefore, the doctor orders me to get an X-ray. After I get back from getting an X-ray, I go to a room and lay in a hospital bed with a million things running through my mind. When the doctor comes back to the room, his face doesn’t show any expression. He begins to tell me that it’s not my heart, which lets me breathe with a sigh of relief. However, he tells me that I have costochondritis

My grandfather passed away in 2008 from lung cancer, he quit smoking 10 years prior to his death. Aside from cancer the only other thing my grandfather was diagnose wit was hypertension. My grandmother health is unknown and is now deceased. My mother is as healthy as can be and hasn’t been diagnosed with anything to our knowledge. Her aunts and uncles from her father’s side of the family are diagnosed with diabetes, hypertension, asthma and etc. My sisters and I are also healthy, the only thing I have are allergies and that’s only when I am exposed to an extremely filthy