A day on track

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  Yesterday was one of those perfect summer days with mid 70s, a little breeze, just a few clouds floatin around. Thanks to Leon with PTT and Learning Curves' Rick Breuer for an awesome day at BHF yesterday. And, a big Thank You to Virgil from Corse Superbikes for treating us WADE guys to lunch; Smoked salmon, turkey and ham sandwiches and all the beverages we could consume. Beautiful. Thanks to the corner workers too! :) One week after heart surgery and back on track. Awesome...    

[Super Dave]

Heart Surgery?  Do tell.... :o

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Heart Surgery?  Do tell.... :o

     They call it an ablation; small catheter wires go in through the artery in the hip and up into each chamber of the heart. These four are for electrical testing to try and get heart rate up to tachycardia. In my case the SVT tachycardias were in the 180 bpm range. Then, a 5th catheter wire goes in to do the cauterizations and cryo freezing on the problem areas. The problem areas are like additional electrical connections that make the heart's electricity crazy, and hence 180-230 beats per minute in most cases. When I brought up heart surgery in your consistency thread, and my "how important is it" question I wasn't trying to be a smartass, per my usual smartass self. Being on the schedule for heart surgery puts a different light on things.

Doctors don't know what EXACTLY causes the SVTs but they put them into correlation with stress, caffeine, tobacco, alcohol, and stress again. I guess the stress of a trackday is not the source. ;D            

[Chuck]

That sounds like a great track day, Black Hawk Farms is slowly becoming one of my favorite tracks.  The food you just mentioned has my stomach doing back flips...

Hope your recovery goes well, sounds like your on the right "track"  :)

[Super Dave]

Well...

I'll be thinking of Ford's SVT program differently now...

LOL! ;D

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    They call it an ablation; small catheter wires go in through the artery in the hip and up into each chamber of the heart. These four are for electrical testing to try and get heart rate up to tachycardia. In my case the SVT tachycardias were in the 180 bpm range. Then, a 5th catheter wire goes in to do the cauterizations and cryo freezing on the problem areas. The problem areas are like additional electrical connections that make the heart's electricity crazy, and hence 180-230 beats per minute in most cases. When I brought up heart surgery in your consistency thread, and my "how important is it" question I wasn't trying to be a smartass, per my usual smartass self. Being on the schedule for heart surgery puts a different light on things.

Doctors don't know what EXACTLY causes the SVTs but they put them into correlation with stress, caffeine, tobacco, alcohol, and stress again. I guess the stress of a trackday is not the source. ;D            

Renee had this surgery when she was 5 years old.  We knew she had this condition before she was even born (her heart rate at birth was 280+ bpm).  She was given mega doses of Inderal (sp?) to control her heart rate until she was big enough to have the operation.  That was over eight years ago and a relatively new procedure at the time.  

I cannot say enough about the Ronald Mc Donald House or Children's Hospital of Milwaukee.....  They were the best.

I'm glad your surgery went well.

Dawn   ;)

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Renee had this surgery when she was 5 years old.  We knew she had this condition before she was even born (her heart rate at birth was 280+ bpm).  She was given mega doses of Inderal (sp?) to control her heart rate until she was big enough to have the operation.  That was over eight years ago and a relatively new procedure at the time.  

I cannot say enough about the Ronald Mc Donald House or Children's Hospital of Milwaukee.....  They were the best.

I'm glad your surgery went well.

Dawn   ;)

   Thanks Dawn, yes, SVT is common in children I guess. The docs were surprised to find it in a 35yo. Glad Renee got through it OK   ;)