66. The Thief with a Wagon
Nasruddin and his wife had been visiting relatives and arrived back home just as a thief was loading the last of their furniture into a wagon.
“Let’s follow him!” Nasruddin whispered to his wife.
When the thief arrived at his own house, he began unloading Nasruddin’s furniture.
“I’ll give you a hand!” Nasruddin said. “Wife, go see if there’s something to eat in the kitchen.”
“Hey!” said the thief. “What do you think you’re doing?”
“Isn’t this our new house?” asked Nasruddin. “I saw all our furniture on your wagon and thought you were moving us to a new house.”
This Tale is from “Tiny Tales of Nasruddin” by Laura Gibbs. The book is licensed under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. © 2019-2022 Laura Gibbs
A friend wrote recently about a decrease in his Heart Rate Variability (HRV) which caused me to do some research. I didn’t know much about it except that it was the ‘pause’ between heart beats.
What I found out was that my Polar Pacer watch, through Polar Flow, provides that data for me. From what I have read the best time to measure HRV is when you first get up in the morning. Since I have been wearing my watch at night with the continuous heart rate option turned on I’m capturing that data.
Therefore, when I go to Nightly Recharge in the Polar Flow app and select ANS Charge it shows me what a four hour average HRV was for that night and the average heart rate and breathing rate. It also provides ‘baseline’ data for those three measurements that lets me see if there is a significant change. This might be a much better tool to predict a psoriasis flare than the low sleeping heart rate I have been tracking that doesn’t predict.
For your information, and my own record, measurements the first time I found them were: HR 45 bpm, HRV 183 mc , Breathing Rate 14.2 br/min.