Anger Management

Today is a big day for me and my angry sarcoid. We, along with my lovely wife who I cannot say enough good things about, are off to visit, once again, the University of Colorado Hospital. However, this time we are visiting as out patients. I am scheduled to see my cardiologist at the Heart Failure Clinic.

The sarcoid has basically remodeled my heart, making it larger and less efficient. The less efficient part is the part that labels me as a heart failure patient. I just don't pump enough blood out of my left ventricular to the rest of my body. But I pump enough that my life is good and I can really do a lot like work, and play with my kid, and bike a little and ski a little and all those other good things. Life is good! It is not the heart failure that is my real problem right now its the VT.

So today the first thing they are gonna do is a device interrogation. That means they hook a computer up to my pacemaker and see whats been going on since they lasted looked at it. What they won't find is that the defibrillator did not fire. I would have know that. What we will find out if I have had any VT. Thats the big question. I haven't felt any so I don't think they are gonna find any but it is a "we'll see." If they find some I can't speculate on what that will mean for me.

Once they do that and draw some blood it is off to see Dr. B, the cardiologist who has been following me the closest and and making most of my health care decisions. He will discuss with me, my angry sarcoid and Gina the results of the device interrogation and what it means and what next course of action is going to be.

Once we are done with Dr B we are off to see Dr K, one of the electrophysiologist or EP docs. These are the electricians of the heart. Not to sure what they want to talk to me about but I always welcome talking to them as, if you might recall, I have some electrical issues with my ticker.

So, big day for us and I have great hopes that it is all going to work at well.