Poor, poor Ellen. A few years ago she had an event at work which required her to go the emergency room. Little did I know that this was a continuing problem that had worsened as she got older. On the rare occasion her heart would rapidly beat like she was running a marathon, evethough she would just be standing around filling out a chart. The ER guys took pity on her, stopped her heart litrerally so it would "reset" itself and gave her some meds to prevent this from happening again.
Fast forward to a few months ago where it happened again at work. She took the meds to stop it, but is now faced with a dilemma. Since we want to have children there is the distinct possibilty of complications with a pregnancy if she has the condition still. AND she can't be on the meds to control it if she is pregnant. Add to that that we are on our way to Spain in a couple of weeks, and go forbid, something should happen to her overseas...
This past week El elected for a procedure to burn away the guilty tissue growth on her heart. The dangers? If they burn too much of the node she would have to have a pacemaker for the rest of her life. If it's too close to a certain part of the heart she would also have to repeat the procedure to "cryo", or freeze, off the tissue. Both not so good. Three hours after her procedure she's in the recovery room. Dr. Guggachev is happy with the work done, eventhough there were some complications (the offending tissue WAS too close for comfort), but he managed to work it out.
El spent the rest of the weekend under observation and then released for care from Nurse Erick. Poor Ellen. I felt pretty awful while she was still out after the procedure watching her sleep. I was happy I was there when she finally awoke.
Hopefully that'll be it for quite awhile. Now we can concentrate on our anniversary trip to Espana in a couple of weeks. Once we get there I'll try to repeat my daily blogger like I did in Japan with pics posted. Til then...
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El,
I hope you are feeling great now. I will pray for your speed recovery. Erick, take good care of her (I know you are).
Let me know if I could be of any help.
Carl
Hope you feel better El... Lek, didn't I tell you to never ever upset your wife?? ;-)
You two are headed to Spain? Mom and sis are going there as well around the second week of September.
Thanks for the support everyone. El has been doing well - she had a little soreness in her right leg but that's about it. She's back to work now and ticking like new! Sorry we kept it kinda low key, but we didn't want to worry everyone unnecessarily.
erick
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