Friday, May 29, 2009

A CHECK UP

Today I'm driving down to St George for a check up from my heart doctor. I'm hoping that the news will be good and he will tell me I can go off my medication. If not then oh well. I feel blessed that they even have medication for this problem now days. But... if I do get to go off the meds, I will be one happy lady. For those of you who don't know and even for those of you who don't care, ha ha.. I had a heart ablation a while back and today will be the test to see if the Ablation worked. Wish me luck.
Here is a diagram of what happens in the heart when A- fib occurs, and when the heart is normal.In the first heart there is pooling in the upper chambers, which can cause blood clots , and in the second heart there is not pooling in the upper chamber. These pictures actually showed the blood pumping through the heart, but when i downloaded them onto my blog they stopped being interactive. dang! they looked pretty cool when they showed the blood going in and out of the chambers so you just have to use your imagination. Just thought it was interesting to see.

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