Matters of the Heart

This is brief, as I managed to sleep until after noon and have to leave in less than one hour to get to Olympia by 2pm... oops, and yet the sleeping till noon was intentional. *grin*

I saw the cardiologist on Thursday, he said that I have both PSVT and A-fib, two separate rhythm issues. I chuckled because the musically inclined dancer happens to have rhythm issues in her heart... always trying to provide comic relief!!!

I havce 4 options:

• Medication as needed & hope it works for the most part (what I'm doing now)
• Medication on a daily basis and try to find one that doesn't make me lethargic (what I've done before)
• Consult with an electro-cardio-physiologist (try saying that title 3 times fast!) about these options
• Consult with the electro-cardio-physiologist about having Cardiac Ablation done.

With the cardiac ablation, they would havce to go in through my groin, kick my heart into it's rapid rhythms, and then shock the bad cells that cause it to race. It's more dangerous to have the A-fib addressed, but if I only do the PSVT then I can still possibly have the A-fib episodes. And my friend just told me that her dad had the ablation and it didn't work...

So, that's where I stand. I'm a healthy, almost 30 year old female with a healthy heart that has a few rhythm issues. As long as the episodes are less than 24 hours, the doc said there's no real damage that can be done ot my heart...

Okay- off to shower and eat, then go POLE DANCING!!!