So I left off (far too long ago) with news that I was going to have a cardiac ablation to fix my SVT.
How did it go you ask???....
It positively ROCKED! Such an easy procedure to fix this annoying heart stuff I had been suffering from most of my life. I had my echo on the 9th of April and the procedure on the 10th.
I was checked in, loaded up with Valium, and wheeled off to the operating room. The nurses were blasting Aerosmith in the operating room....I either thought these guys are awesome or boy I am in trouble :)) Turns out the were awesome!
Dr. Patel came in and told me what he was going to do...which was to fix me. Then told the girl with the drugs that it was time to go night night :) The last thing I remember was telling the girl...please make sure I stay night night through this whole thing! Some stories I had read said people were awake though this....no THANK YOU!!
So did the surgery go off without a hitch? ....
Absolutely not! This is me we are talking about and nothing about me is normal.
I guess normally the issue is caused by something in the left side of the heart but mine was on the right. So the doc had to puncture the wall with a needle to get to it. He did a fine job and I didn't feel a thing.
So 5 hours after this "heart surgery" I went home. How cool is that? I can't even imagine what they had to do to fix this 15 years ago...medical technology not only amazes me it makes me hopeful. If I wait long enough maybe they can fix my head just as easy....or easier at least.
Ha!! Saw it and had to add...it made me laugh
3 days of hanging out in the house and I was my normal self again....still amazes me!! I keep thinking if I lean over or do something that would have sent my heart into a frenzy before that it will happen again but it doesn't....its amazing!
Before getting this procedure the doctor said there was a possibility that some symptoms I was attributing to Chiari may actually have been from my heart. I was excited about the possibilities. It did fix the heart problems. But I can't see much else that has changed. Maybe less headaches? ...but not enough to say wow it did fix this or that. I did fix my heart though and I am so unbelievably happy and grateful to Dr. Williams for figuring this all out and Dr. Patel for fixing it!
Hopefully this is the end of my medical excitement for awhile. *Knock on wood* both my BI and CM have been behaving and my only complaint is headaches...not too many and not too awful. I can live with that!
