Hi Dana, the only thing they could do to save me from my heart failing is a transplant. Unfortunately for me, my precancerous blood condition would stop the application for one. That’s because my blood is progressing into Waldenstrom Macroglobulemia a rare form of Non Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.

But since you’re interested in ablations, I have one that is very rare to do and most doctors in the United States problem never hear of it being done, yet actually getting a chance to perform it. You see my birth defect involves rogue heart cells that formed a short circuit between the SA node and the AV Node in the right Atrial Chamber. What happens is a pulse beat jumps into the short circuit and starts going around and around causing the right ventricle to contact and pump. The beat just keeps going faster and faster. Now here’s the kicker, the regular pathway is also sending a signal to the right ventricle to contact and pump. Now it’s receiving two commands to pump. That’e the problem, my highest heart rate while pumping was 197bpm. It’s called Pulseless Ventricular Tachycardia because you can’t feel a regular heart beat since it’s pumping so fast.

Now here’s the only abolition possible to stop the short circuit from working. I will be unconscious, strapped to the operating table because I can’t move at all since the procedure is so delicate it could kill me. You remember those Rogue cells I told you about that make up the short circuit, each one will have to be destroyed one heart cell at a time in a procedure that could take over 10 hours to complete. I have a $25,000 special loop recorder under my left breast that has to map out each Rogue cell involved in order to destroy the short circuit. Each cell must be destroyed or the other cells might join in and rebuild another short circuit. The mapping heart monitor has a battery good for 5 years with 1 year gone already. How many doctors get to work on such a rare problem, not many I would thing. Well, have you ever heard of this ablation procedure Dana? only thing they could do to save me from my heart failing is a transplant. Unfortunately for me, my precancerous blood condition would stop the application for one. That’s because my blood is progressing into Waldenstrom Macroglobulemia a rare form of Non Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.

But since you’re interested in ablations, I have one that is very rare to do and most doctors in the United States problem never hear of it being done, yet actually getting a chance to perform it. You see my birth defect involves rogue heart cells that formed a short circuit between the SA node and the AV Node in the right Atrial Chamber. What happens is a pulse beat jumps into the short circuit and starts going around and around causing the right ventricle to contact and pump. The beat just keeps going faster and faster. Now here’s the kicker, the regular pathway is also sending a signal to the right ventricle to contact and pump. Now it’s receiving command to pump. That’e the problem, my highest heart rate while pumping was 197bpm. It’s called Pulseless Ventricular Tachycardia because you can’t feel a regular heart beat because it’s pumping so fast.

Now here’s the only abolition possible to stop the short circuit from working. I will be unconscious, strapped to the operating table because I can’t move at all since the procedure is so delicate it could kill me. You remember those Rogue cells I told you about that make up the short circuit, each one will have to be destroyed one heart cell at a time in a procedure that could take over 10 hours to complete. I have a $25,000 special loop recorder under my left breast that has to map out each Rogue cell involved in order to destroy the short circuit. Each cell must be destroyed or the other cells might join in and rebuild another short circuit. The mapping heart monitor has a battery good for 5 years with 1 year gone already. How many doctors get to work on such a rare problem, not many I would thing. Well, have you ever heard of this ablation procedure Dana? @becky1024