You could also die in your sleep tonight. Or, have done so last night. You didn't worry because it was out of your control and unpredictable. And being unconscious, you'd not have known anyway. Same, same. Stop worrying. Instead, spend some energy on gratitude that you have an EP working for you and you're in line for relief. That was my orientation. Or, worry if your affairs are not in order. Do you have a will? An executor? Those would be a far more productive spend of your time than worrying about eventualities with an exceedingly low probability...like 0.5%!! I was only worried about long-term effects, and in order to delay them or to stave them off entirely, I needed a heart spending as little time in AF as humanly possible. I am that human, and by God, I was going to have someone try to stem the tide of ectopy.

My wife and I have had to travel three times to Victoria, southern tip of Vancouver Island, to where the cath lab is at Royal Jubilee. Once for an angiogram in workups for the ablation, and then for two ablations (first one wiggled its way into the 25% failure-for-first-ablations category). We also travel every three months to see her oncologist and her rheumatologist, same area around Royal Jubilee Hospital. Now in normal sinus rhythm (NSR) for coming up to two years already, I can't begin to describe the relief and gratitude I have for the facilities and the wonderful medical staff and surgeons, and for the reduction in anxiety I now have. Also, I was highly symptomatic and felt awful in the last year that included both ablations. Truly awful. Now....amazing. I urge you to look forward to that orientation to your own eventual success.