When I ran on Monday I had heart pain for the first time in probably 10 days and it was worse than normal, came on later in the run, and instead of going away quickly, it persisted for about 2 kilometers. Worrisome. I hadn’t used my spray ‘cause I thought it would go away. Tuesday was pretty much a repeat of Monday. Fortunately my knee only hurts every other step else it would really take away the will to run. I needed a theory as to what was going on.
I recalled what Dr. Ken Cooper had written about reaching a plateau and then new capillaries are built into the muscle and deliver more oxygen and one goes to a new plateau. If this is true and I’ve been consistently doing about 8000 steps, then maybe the heart muscle was getting some new capillaries to get to the next level.
Those being built from open heart vessels would have adequate blood flow. Those being built from a clogged artery would demand flow that was not there and the starved portion of the heart would be in pain--typical angina. Likely there is a better theory, but I decided to go with the non-flow. Wednesday I took the same route with no pain. I had a slight nagging a couple of times but no actual pain, just awareness. Go figger.
It rained on Wed. evening so there was no dust on Thursday morning so I tackled the notorious hill out of Apres and climbed all the way to the Samaritan Villa without any pain. Well, maybe it takes only 2 days for the heart to build capillaries, or maybe my heart did a spontaneous by-pass!! I’ll ask Jesus when I get to heaven, or maybe I won’t need to ask—there’s a theology question for you! My blood pressure has been about 114/62 and my resting heart rate is under 50 bpm. So I think I’ll go for a run in the morning. J Praise the Lord.
On another note, I am preaching at the House of Faith in a couple of week’s time. I have no research materials and no Internet as such, so I’ll just have to do my part and rely on God to do the rest. I’m getting pretty accustomed to ‘watching Him work’ so I’ll put my hand in His hand for this time as well. Pray that I will be used as a blessing to that congregation. We expect there will be about 200 for the English service and more through an interpreter for the Twi service, later. Preaching with an interpreter is better because you get a chance to think while he is interpreting!
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It's fun to see the pictures and read the updates. You are having an adventure! Remember for your preaching:
Tell 'em what you're going to tell 'em.
Tell 'em.
tell 'em what you told 'em.
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