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MuseRider

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11. I am home and in better shape to be posting.
Thu Nov 4, 2021, 04:01 PM
Nov 2021

My doctor had told my husband that he did not think he did enough but could not do more. The node was on one of my left ventricular arteries. He called in 4 of his other doctors and they all agreed that to get closer was a huge risk. He told me he was within 2 mm of my artery and if he had hit it it would have been "Game Over" for me. He was sad and sorry when I saw him before he left that night. I was in there around 6 hours I think and they ended up intubating me so I was way out. My husband told me he had said that he hoped the parts he did get would help me.

He came into my room the yesterday morning with this big grin on his face, I had had not one PVC all night long and that after carrying a 20% + load before. I am home, on some new meds for now. EKG today showed no PVC's.

Still a lot of follow up to do but I am happy. Tired but happy. Next to get rid of the heart failure, much of that caused by my arrhythmia. Boy was this close.

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Ablation for PVC's [View all] MuseRider Oct 2021 OP
Haven't had it done, but.. luvs2sing Oct 2021 #1
Wow that was really lucky! MuseRider Oct 2021 #3
Almost 25 years ago lapfog_1 Oct 2021 #2
Oh thank you so much for being one of the first MuseRider Oct 2021 #4
When the beta blockers stopped working lapfog_1 Oct 2021 #5
God no with the paddles MuseRider Nov 2021 #6
Leaving to go to the Med Center MuseRider Nov 2021 #7
Failure. MuseRider Nov 2021 #8
pacemaker? lapfog_1 Nov 2021 #9
Still out of it lol MuseRider Nov 2021 #10
I am home and in better shape to be posting. MuseRider Nov 2021 #11
That is GREAT news lapfog_1 Nov 2021 #12
Hopefully the two of us MuseRider Nov 2021 #13
I ended up having a little stroke after all this. MuseRider Nov 2021 #14
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