Heart Palps...Not just for menopause anymore!

[malkin]

I have an appointment scheduled with a cardiologist.

I hope I am a candidate for this:

... procedure done where they snaked a wire up through her artery to her heart and gave it a zap, and she has been fine since then. (That may be an extreme simplification of what was done, but it’s been a while!)

That sounds exactly like what I've heard. There are a couple different ways to do the 'zap' and sometimes the patient is not even under general anesthesia. I hope I am a candidate for it, and I hope they knock me out. (My med student daughter wants me to ask if she can watch!)

(Brewer talked to her on the phone while I was in the ambulance. She told him what they'd do, and if that didn't work, she said they'd defibrillate me--and she suggested that he bring me clean undies just in case. Glad we didn't have to go there.)

[Possegal]

The procedure is called a cardiac ablation. In case you wondered. It's usually done with a catheter through the femoral vein.

Good luck with the cardiologist and hope they figure it out and you can put it all behind you. My niece has wrestled with this some and I know how upsetting it is for her.