Friday, August 19, 2011

Heart Problems #2

So after seeing a specialist, it was decided I was going to have a TEE and cardioversion.  These words are now in my vocabulary.   Essentially, I swallowed a camera, they looked around, and then shocked my heart back in rhythm.  After the procedure they called me to schedule an atrial ablation.  I went to Ames for this procedure.  The purpose of this one was to have them go in through the veins in my groin (where you legs connect to your torso---bikini line) and take some catheters with long needles to my heart to cauterize whatever node is causing the problem. Unfortunately, the node was not found, and we are back to the waiting game.  I do not go back to the doctor until the middle of September, and at that time they will set up a heart monitor to wear for 24 hours.  After that, we are not really sure what goes from there.  I have done a lot of googling of these terms to see what to expect, and you still really never know what is going to happen until it does.Waiting for jobs, waiting for interviews, waiting for callbacks, and now waiting on doctors.  Waiting is NOT one of my strong suits.

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