Surgery went well. I am pretty much completely recovered, although I still feel a little tired. I taught Sunday School this morning a mere two days after the ablation!
Thursday went very much according to plan. I dropped off all the kids as usual at school. I came home packed my bag for the hospital. My husband drove me over to the hospital. Check in and registration went quickly. Totally grossed out when the male nurse mentioned shaving me for the procedure!! Thankfully, I told him I wax and it would not be necessary. I vaguely remember another nurse saying, "You are getting the medicine now" and lights out for me. Unfortunately, my arrhythmia needed a little help getting triggered. In addition to them putting adrenalin in my IV they had to wake me up from the anesthesia twice! That was definitely weird. I remember feeling very hot and asking for my socks to be taken off and asking how could I help. Then before I knew it I was back in recovery with my husband at my side, meanwhile 5 hours had passed. The ablation procedure consisted of a wire going through a vein (not artery) with a deflated "balloon" at the end. The "balloon" had sensors on the outside so with one beat of my hear they got to see the inside of my right chamber from all angles. Sure enough, they zapped three separate spots in the right chamber with "rogue cells." I wore the heart monitor over night and had just 3 PVCs the entire night, whereas before I was having them 7% of the time with beta blockers. Hooray!!
I have been so excited to teach my Sunday School Lent class because I put a lot of thought into the lesson. The kids planted wheat grass seeds in a clear plastic cup and made crosses out of popsicle sticks. The finished product should occur around Easter with really tall green grass coming out of the cup with the crosses, should look really attractive. Emphasized Lent as a time when we really try hard to hear God by praying more, helping others and living simply. A time of transformation, the seed into grass and the caterpillar into a butterfly (I read a story). Hopefully they understood some of it, its hard concepts.
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