YAY!!!

[Pit_Girl]

i just got the go-ahead for RA!... so i'll finally get to meet everyone (that is, unless i get in trouble again....*crosses fingers)

hopefully my leg is feeling better so i can ride around on my bike... errr...bicycle that is.  i just had cathater surgury on my heart yesterday and they went in through my femoral artery... so i have a nice lovely bruise  ;D... but at least i get to go.... besides, i could always have nate pedal my rear end around RA on his handle bars.... that is what boyfriends are for, right?  ;D

-jennifer

[Dawn]

Curious...

Radio Frequency Ablation (sp?)

Dawn   ;)

[Pit_Girl]

come again?  ???

-jennifer

[lil_thorny]

yes i'm curious too, for i do intraoperative
angiography for a living. what exactly did you
have done. were you seen in the cath lab?
Benj.
hope all is well. :D

[Nate R]

It's a procedure, Jen. With your medical knowledge, I thought you would've known about that one. Google is great!  ;D  It's a procedure for people with an arrhythmia.

Dawn: What Jen has was different. I don't remember the name, But I'll look for it or ask her later.

[Decreasing_Dave]

Amplaster (sp?)

My Daughter needs that next year.


By the way....isn't that my...errrr..Eddie's Dancin' Banana?? >:(

[lil_thorny]

that is a peanut isn't it?
good to hear? thought maybe some youngster
needed angioplasty for an occluded vessel. ???
Benj.
oh yeah i'm at work right now loungen getting paid
 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Benj.

[Dawn]

Here's a link for the procedure I described...

http://www.nscardiology.com/ub_sp9701.htm

Dawn   ;)

[Nate R]

Its the cycleforums.net banana.....

As far as the procedure itself.... Jen wont be around till later tonight, so I'll describe it as best I can. I know she knows the name of it, though.

From waht I understand, there's a vessel connecting something in your heart that hardens or closes at/near birth. Hers never closed, so she had some blood shortcutting the body and just circulating through the heart/lungs, IIRC.

They went in there with a tube, and then placed a coil in her vessel which they then unraveled. This coil will allow the heart to build a wall on the entrance/exit to the vessel so it gets closed up. I think that's right. Anyone familiar with a procedure like this? Got the name for it?

Jen will post later today I'm sure with the name and proper description. Mine might be off.

[Decreasing_Dave]

My daughter has a hole between two chambers of her heart.  She will have to go through something that sounds very similar to what Jen did.

The Doc wants to wait 'til she's bigger (she's only 2 now).

Oh Boy...we're anxiously awaiting that...let me tell you. :'( :'( :'(

[Nate R]

AHA! Here it is. I called her and got the name: She had a Patent Ductus Arteriosus. Here's a link to more info:

http://www.pennhealth.com/ency/article/001560.htm

Obviously hers was more minor than this, as they didn't find out about it until recently, and she's certainly a lot older than 2. So, they used a cardio catheterization? procedure to fix this, or at least do something to allow the body to fix it.

[Dawn]

My daughter has a hole between two chambers of her heart.  She will have to go through something that sounds very similar to what Jen did.

The Doc wants to wait 'til she's bigger (she's only 2 now).

Oh Boy...we're anxiously awaiting that...let me tell you. :'( :'( :'(

Take heart (opps, bad pun) Dave.  

Our daughter was born with SVT (Super Ventricular Tachacardia) but it took some time to diagnose.  Even before she was born we knew there problems, so...  that's why we stopped at one child (too long and involved of a story).

Renee was on high doses of medication to control her heart rate because they were waiting until she "got bigger" to do the surgery.  She had it at 5 years of age.  

You are going through a stressful time, and it will be until the surgery and the recovery is done.  I am thankful for the technology of modern medicine.  Plus, if you need to, stay at one of the Ronald McDonald Houses.  They are absolutely wonderful!

Dawn   ;)