Journal #6764
Posted 14 years ago2010-09-07 16:52:05 UTC
Hello TWHL
Tomorrow AM I go in for heart surgery.
It's nothing major, but i figure you all should know.
By "nothing major" i mean that the operation is not 'open heart' and there will be no incisions made to my skin.
If you remember some time ago i informed you all of a... condition i have called SVT. Well I could do one of 2 things to combat this;
1) i can take beta blockers to lower my heart rate for the rest of my life and hope that's enough to get me by.
2) i can have a surgical procedure done, and it all goes away.
Naturally i chose the surgery because who wants to be on meds for the rest of their life? Not me.
About the surgery:
The procedure i'm having done is called an ablation.
And if you click that link you'll note the quote:"removal of material from the surface of an object".
And if you read up on SVT you'll know that i have an extra electrical pathway running down my heart.
So if you put one and one together, i get one less electrical pathway in my heart.
They're going in I.V. (intravenous, or into-vein for all you NOT sitting on a cushion), and they will be entering the inside of my heart.
Once inside the doctors will try to trigger the SVT (REALLY fast abnormal heartbeat) using whatever means necessary (usually adrenaline). After they have caused the abnormal heartbeat to occur, the doctors will take their laser, or high-frequency burner, and proceed to ablate, or shave off, or burn, or destroy, that extraneous pathway in my heart.
Once they think they have gotten rid of it, they will shoot me up with some more adrenaline and if my heartbeat slows to normal after it all wears off, the surgery will be a success, and i will be back to normal!
Things to note:
1) The doctor who is performing my procedure has been doing this since 1988 (the year i was born) and has done literally 1000's of procedures.
2) nobody has ever died from this procedure under this man's watch
3) with 2 being said, the worst case scenario is that they can't pinpoint the cause of the irregular heartbeat, and a) they have to do it again some other time, or b) they get it, but i have more than 1 extra path, and they didn't get that one.
So, now that you have the facts, any questions?
Tomorrow AM I go in for heart surgery.
It's nothing major, but i figure you all should know.
By "nothing major" i mean that the operation is not 'open heart' and there will be no incisions made to my skin.
If you remember some time ago i informed you all of a... condition i have called SVT. Well I could do one of 2 things to combat this;
1) i can take beta blockers to lower my heart rate for the rest of my life and hope that's enough to get me by.
2) i can have a surgical procedure done, and it all goes away.
Naturally i chose the surgery because who wants to be on meds for the rest of their life? Not me.
About the surgery:
The procedure i'm having done is called an ablation.
And if you click that link you'll note the quote:"removal of material from the surface of an object".
And if you read up on SVT you'll know that i have an extra electrical pathway running down my heart.
So if you put one and one together, i get one less electrical pathway in my heart.
They're going in I.V. (intravenous, or into-vein for all you NOT sitting on a cushion), and they will be entering the inside of my heart.
Once inside the doctors will try to trigger the SVT (REALLY fast abnormal heartbeat) using whatever means necessary (usually adrenaline). After they have caused the abnormal heartbeat to occur, the doctors will take their laser, or high-frequency burner, and proceed to ablate, or shave off, or burn, or destroy, that extraneous pathway in my heart.
Once they think they have gotten rid of it, they will shoot me up with some more adrenaline and if my heartbeat slows to normal after it all wears off, the surgery will be a success, and i will be back to normal!
Things to note:
1) The doctor who is performing my procedure has been doing this since 1988 (the year i was born) and has done literally 1000's of procedures.
2) nobody has ever died from this procedure under this man's watch
3) with 2 being said, the worst case scenario is that they can't pinpoint the cause of the irregular heartbeat, and a) they have to do it again some other time, or b) they get it, but i have more than 1 extra path, and they didn't get that one.
So, now that you have the facts, any questions?
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I recently ditched pills for my own treatment as well. Most of that shit is worse than whatever some thug on the street will try to sell you.
Joe: how can you say that. :/
@Tet: Best of luck mate. Update us all ASAP.
Hope it doesn't put you out of it too long.
I need to be at the hospital for 6:30AM Which means we have to leave my house at 5:30.. which means i probably need to wake up at 5:00, or close to it.
Good luck brother.
Try to enjoy it
You won't get this message before you come back, so instead of wishing you luck I'll say I hope it went well!
This type of surgery is rather safe, so I fully expect you to return very soon to TWHL and tell us what happened.
"I fell asleep and then when I woke up it was done. The end."
More details later, when im not using an on-screen keyboard.
[Edit] Apparently it did.
Tetsu0, you ninja.
Youtube's idea 24 is this: Share a medical experience so others can know what to expect, so why don't you go get a camera and talk about it?