Saturday, March 15, 2025

Blood clots and slipped discs

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It's odd how things happen in life. Was sent for a TEE last October for a routine checkup and the found a blood clot in my LAA. Then to ...
Sunday, May 23, 2021

Getting Back To Normal

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Its been a little over three years since I found myself in the hospital facing what would be #2 of 5 catheter ablations to get my heart back...
Wednesday, December 16, 2020

They say a picture is worth more than words.....

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 Lots has happened since my last post. The heart is well and I'm feeling great. My wife did test positive for Covid. I tested negative b...

Back From Austin

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Had my 5th ablation this past Wednesday. Dr. Natale addressed the issues that were causing me issues. My LAA had a reconnected circuit. He h...
Saturday, October 10, 2020

I'll try To Do Better

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I'm really lacking at this blogging thing these days but I'm going to make an effort to improve. Lots has happened since July. Besid...
Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Time flies

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Its amazing how fast time goes by. I hadn't realized its been so long since I have posted here. But as they say no news is good news. ...

Ablation Summary from July 2019

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Back at the hotel after a fairly restful night. Yesterday was a long day. Checked into St David's @ 0530. Was in the EP Lab @0600. As ...

Back From Austin

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WOW!!! I didn't realize I hadn't finished this post........ My Bad Had another great trip to Austin and as usual TCA and St. David...
Saturday, June 29, 2019

Nothing New

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Noting new to report lately. I did have a short run of eptopics a day last week that I thought were surely going to lead to an event. Fortun...
Tuesday, May 7, 2019

Outpacing Myself

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Had another break through the other day. Came home from work and was helping with dinner when it happened. this one was the worst thus far. ...
Friday, April 19, 2019

Afib Break Throughts

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I have had a total of 3 Break Through events this year.Feb 15, April 1 and April 14. Two of them happened wile relaxed and the other at the ...
Saturday, March 23, 2019

Lots Going On

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Not much new on the heart front. Only a few eptopics hear and there but nothing sustained. I've been getting to the gym, Zwifting, ridin...

Steady As She Goes

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Not a whole lot of new news to report. I did get the results of my Zio Patch and there wasn't allot to report from that. There were 17 o...
Sunday, February 10, 2019

Monitoring My Every Move

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My heart rate monitor arrived last week and its unlike any I have ever had in the past. Its called the  ZIO Patch . It is the smallest monit...
Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Monitor On Its Way

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Heard from Dr. Natale's office the other day. They are sending a 7 day monitor for me to wear. This is the next step leading up to anoth...
Thursday, December 27, 2018

Feeling Great Heading Into Month #6

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Merry Belated Christmas!!!! Had a wonderful day with the family over the past week. Christmas this year fell on my seven day break fr...
Saturday, December 1, 2018

Heading Into Month #5

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Working on month number 5 now. It seems just like yesterday I was in Austin having my ablation done. I'm still sending weekly reports...
Friday, November 9, 2018

Waiting With Bated Breath

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That's how I picture the 2 or 3 of you that visit this blog randomly. Anyway, things are going well right now. I am completely...
Saturday, October 20, 2018

3 Months

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Today marks the 3 month anniversary (blanking period) of my ablation with Dr. Natale in Texas. It has also been over a month since I have ha...
Tuesday, October 2, 2018

NSR

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That is where I have been now for a couple weeks now. Feels so good. My back pain is better too especially on days I don’t work and days aft...