After his brother’s premature death at 46, our writer got serious about wearable tech
He was working on the old barn behind his old house, which he and his wife had bought less than a year earlier. The barn looked tired. Some of the posts showed bug-nibbled rot. Some of the windowpanes were gone. But Michael saw it for what it was: a beautiful red barn, solid where it counted, capable of wrapping its walls around all sorts of memories we would have forever. He was nearly finished converting a portion of it into an exercise room .
, a national network of privately owned campsites. And even when he couldn’t will some dream into reality, the rest of us were left standing there watching him, smiling, shaking our heads. We marvelled at him because heI can still hear my father’s voice as if he’s forcing himself to speak: “Michael died in his sleep last night.”
Now here was evidence—the worst kind of evidence—that none of us apparently know squat about how healthy we are. Mike was healthy, wasn’t he? When Mike disappeared, I didn’t even have a primary-care doctor. I got one quick and asked him to refer me to a cardiologist. I requested and underwent every heart test they had, the most important of which was a CT calcium test, which checks for calcified plaque in your arteries. My score on that was zero. My cardiologist wrote in the notes: “This is the best result possible. Good work!”
Apple Watch can do a lot of stuff I don’t need, which I guess is great for people who do need it. Its most advanced cardio power is the ability to detect signs of atrial fibrillation , an abnormal heart rhythm that can have few symptoms and can cause catastrophic problems like stroke, blood clots, kidney and heart failure, and death.
All of this is old news to Apple fans, but for me it’s what has mattered most. If I’m closing rings and my heart rate is good and I’m washing my hands for 20 seconds every time, I feel like I’m doing something about not dying.
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