I am 42 years old and had something called AV node re-entry. After 18 plus years of having terrible heart arrythmias, I referred myself to a physician and went to a consult not very optomistic he could fix me. He did! Wow what a change in my whole life! Just talking about it brings me to tears. I had such a bad arrythmia, I was afraid to go anywhere or do anything. As a RN, I work with heart doctors who did not encourage me to have the procedure and people made jokes about me dying on the table and told me horror stories about the procedure. I went into the cath lab with tears rolling down my face terrified out of my gord he was going to kill me on the table. In less than 1/2 hr I was fixed. I owe my entire sanity to this electrophysiologist who fixed me. He has made such a change in my life and I cannot begin to express how thankful I am he took the time to fix the problem I kept downplaying because I didnt want people to keep worrying me. I was scared.
Should I send cookies?
2006-09-21
15:05:09
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happydawg
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Heart Diseases