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My Mum Found Out She Is Diabetic And Has A Heart Condition
At the end of October 2021, I upgraded my Apple Watch (I wanted the onscreen keyboard, because, as a writer who has a lot of her best thoughts in bed at night, this makes it easy to note them down!).
My mum had my ‘old’ one. I set it up for her, and she began wearing it regularly.
A GLITCH?
Within the first day of wearing it, the watch started alerting her to an increased heartbeat level. At first, we thought it was just a technical glitch, but then it happened again.
By November, it was happening several times a day. My mum, still believing that the watch was being overly sensitive, wanted to just take it off and stop wearing it.
I wasn’t so sure. You see, I had been wearing that watch for almost three years, and had never had the same issue. In fact, even though I exercise regularly, the watch very rarely hit my exercise goal for the day.
So, I did one of the things that I am very good at. I pestered. I pestered her to speak to the doctor.
A HEALTH CHECK UP
When she did, the doctor wanted her to have an ECG and blood tests. A general health overhaul. A kind of annual…
