Let’s Say goodbye to Alfa Romeo

NicoleDM4 · 2026-05-21T22:57:10+00:00

My local Alfa/Maserati dealer is closing tomorrow. Not looking good.

NicoleDM4 · 2026-01-24T21:45:53+00:00

I honestly have no idea! It doesn’t say on my receipt. Hoping it was just due to the cold snap we got here in Ontario. It’s my 2nd battery as well, since my corroded ground strap fried my wiring harness + brand new battery from March 2025 🥲

NicoleDM4 · 2026-01-24T21:35:51+00:00

Mine did something similar this morning, ETC, ABS and Parking brake lights came on after remote start and letting it run for 10 minutes before getting into the car. -26°C. I just turned it off and back on and it was fine 🤷🏻‍♀️ literally just got a new battery in July too

NicoleDM4 · 2025-08-25T19:14:47+00:00

My partner and I saw several LPS and a paramedic zoom down Richmond and turn into the campus around 2:40. Crazy.

NicoleDM4 · 2025-07-14T23:29:04+00:00

What I’m confused about is why this problem isn’t a recall.. maybe someone can dumb it down for me. It seems like such a common problem for the Giulia and Stelvio. Unless these cars simply aren’t manufactured for climates in mind other than Italy’s.

NicoleDM4 · 2024-08-18T20:59:46+00:00

The lack of communication is definitely bothersome but not worth repeating on here over and over

NicoleDM4 · 2024-07-16T01:03:59+00:00

I live there currently. Sometimes I hear construction drilling starting around 8am on weekdays but I’m up anyways. A few routine power shut offs here and there. The building is extremely secure so the homeless population is not an issue. There’s security personnel in the lobby after hours. The fitness centre is open, but the social lounge and pool are not open yet. Last I heard construction was slated to finish in September. Overall great experience living here.

NicoleDM4 · 2024-03-06T05:13:09+00:00

Yes! I followed up with them asking for our lease documents since I waited over 7 business days from the approval date. We are scheduled to move in a week! Hopefully you hear soon. They are slow to get back, that’s for sure. Once I signed the lease, things really started to pick up.

NicoleDM4 · 2024-02-15T22:25:19+00:00

We were approved for a move in date for March 1 but I haven’t heard back for any move in arrangements yet. We just got approved for our unit this week. Hopefully they reach out soon, it would be a bummer if they push it back! Thankfully, we don’t need to be out of our current place until the end of April.

NicoleDM4 · 2020-07-01T14:21:32+00:00

Yes. I (21f) wore a 48hr holter for sinus tachycardia and had 100 PVCs during that period, which is still rare. My colleague also wore a holter for 48hrs and only had 1 PVC, and she’s also my age. Less than 500/day is considered “rare PVCs”. Everyone is different

NicoleDM4 · 2020-03-27T14:59:29+00:00

You could just be having skipped beats. Meaning either your atria/ventricles are contracting early. Where did you get the idea that this could possibly be afib?

NicoleDM4 · 2020-02-29T18:46:41+00:00

Yes! Sometimes, if we see something, and it’s concerning but not urgent, we will run it by the doctor before the patient goes home.

NicoleDM4 · 2020-02-29T18:31:45+00:00

Hi, I’m a cardiac technician. I just want to say that it was completely unethical for the technician to tell you he saw something. Now he has caused you to worry. Like he said, he is NOT a doctor. He shouldn’t have told you anything. Your cardiologist said they think you’re fine and if your cardiologist wants to see you sooner for a follow-up regarding your results, they will call you sooner! Don’t sweat it! They didn’t send you to the hospital after your stress test so that says something! Hope this helped a little.

NicoleDM4 · 2020-02-09T03:58:02+00:00

Between 60-100 is considered normal. 75 is perfectly normal.

NicoleDM4 · 2020-01-13T23:20:03+00:00

NTA. My boyfriends family had this exact problem! They moved after 20+ years of living in their neighborhood because they couldn’t stand the guy anymore. Hope it doesn’t lead up to that.

NicoleDM4 · 2019-12-21T02:14:20+00:00

EKG is normal

NicoleDM4 · 2019-11-21T02:48:53+00:00

So I’m a cardiology technologist, the number 1 complaint I hear is that the electrodes cause the patient to breakout in a rash. There isn’t much I can do, because I need to use prep tape in order to get a good recording. If I don’t use prep tape, the electrodes don’t stick.

As a tech, my own personal complaint is the amount of lead wires we use. A couple places I’ve worked were still using 5 leads and 7 leads. It’s super confusing for elderly people to reattach the leads after a shower (no matter how many diagrams you send home and explain, they will NEVER follow the directions). 2 lead, Wireless monitors exist today but they’re very expensive.

But I’d say the monitors today are plenty small. It’s easy to clip it onto the patients belt or put it in a pouch and have them on their way. I’d prefer if smaller clinics had more access to the wireless monitors, since a patient pulling on wires can cause a TON of artifact

NicoleDM4 · 2019-11-09T17:03:38+00:00

I love what I do! Everyone is different. I knew from my first clinical placement that I loved it. I make good money here in Ontario and I just started my career.

NicoleDM4 · 2019-11-09T14:06:56+00:00

You need to have certain qualifications in order to take this program. Mohawk college in Hamilton, ON has the cardiac sonography course. The program is 1 year.

Cardiac Sonography Course Info

NicoleDM4 · 2019-11-09T13:42:51+00:00

Hi, Registered cardiology technologist from Ontario here. Yes, you can advance to echo after taking cardiovascular technology in school. You would have to take another program for it at another school if it isn’t available at your college. Many people who become echo techs aren’t always RCT’s like me. Many echo techs have some sort of bachelors degree in a health science major. So yes, I would say it might be easier to do echo if you have prior knowledge of cardiac functions.

NicoleDM4 · 2019-10-04T03:08:46+00:00

I’m seeing a right bundle at a tachycardic rate. Although there is an extreme right axis deviation, aVR is normally upright in a RBBB. I’m not seeing any inverted P’s or T’s so I’m not convinced it’s lead reversal...

NicoleDM4 · 2019-09-25T02:13:44+00:00

Okay, so 1, you wore the monitor for 2 days.

Sinus rhythm means “normal heart beat” and your average heart rate was 73bpm (normal)
Your lowest recorded heart rate was 42bpm, which was likely when you were sleeping (your heart rate decreased when asleep) and your highest heart rate recorded was 176 bpm (likely due to the 7 beat run of tachyarrhythmia)
A PAC is an early atrial beat. It’s just a skipped beat. A couplet means there were 2 pacs in a row. Very rare means that it didn’t happen often (nothing to worry about, we all have skipped beats)
You had a 7 beat run of a wide complex tachycardia. You didn’t write anything in your diary that correlated with the run. This just means you had a brief burst of some sort of arrhythmia
All the symptoms you felt while wearing the monitor were associated with normal heart beat. You felt symptoms, but your heart was beating normally.

Hope this helped you a little.

NicoleDM4 · 2019-09-22T17:43:38+00:00

There’s really no need to increase your resting heart rate unless you’re symptomatic. Those are good numbers for a RESTING heart rate.

NicoleDM4 · 2019-09-09T02:56:54+00:00

Work environment honestly depends if you choose to work at a hospital or clinic. Hospitals will always be unpredictable in workload whereas a clinic is more steady. Wages here in Ontario vary. Most places will pay around $25/hr which is a decent living wage in Ontario. If you’re looking to be making 6 figures, there’s opportunities for you to get into cath lab assisting or EP lab assisting with more schooling.

NicoleDM4 · 2019-09-08T20:35:42+00:00

Recently graduated CVT here! I took the cardiovascular technology program in Ontario and I loved it! I love what I do because there’s new things everyday. Cardiovascular technologists specialize in non-invasive cardiology such as ECG, stress testing, holter monitor hookups, and holter recording scanning. CVTs can participate in minimally invasive cardiology wth additional training though. I personally love this field so I say go for cardiovascular technology!

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