48 hours and counting

So in about 48 hours I return to the hospital for the 4 and hopefully final time for awhile. I check in on Thursday the 2oth and have my ablation on the Friday the 21st. Today I also start 5 shots of blood thinner heparin. I am going get Gina to give it to as I think she might enjoy it (as it should be painful for me).

When I check in at the hospital I head to the 12 floor and then just wait I guess. I know that they are planning a coronary CT scan at about noon. That's where they take x-ray images of slice of my heart. I think that's good information for them to know before the surgery. Then I guess they are gonna also poke me and make sure my blood is clotting they way they want it to. and poke a hole in me to give me intravenous drugs if the need arises. And then I think I will get a visit from the docs to go over what is really gonna happen to me. and then we wait. and I say we because you know Gina is gonna be there...

So Friday is the procedure. I still haven't read up on to know exactly what it entails. I will do that between now and tomorrow night. Part of me doesn't want to know. I do know that they use catheters to go vein or artery (I can't remember) in my upper leg to my heart. That's to ablate the areas inside my heart that are causing the VT. If there are areas on the outside of my heart, and I have a feeling there are, they will poke a hole below my strunum and go between my chest and pericardium, the area or sac around the heart. Thats the tricky or more risky part of the whole porcedure as there are lots of really important arteries that feed the heart blood that you don't want to mess with. Anyway, Dr. Bieke may not even let the EP docs do it since I am faily suppeptable to infection right now and he may not be willing to take that risk. I am still having a hard time coming to grips with what this whole procedure.

So I will change the subject. Gina just gave me the shot and it wasn't too bad now it is stinging. Time to start passing the time until I head to the hospital.