For all of you that have been curious, Jason's surgery went very well. It was done on May 8th at LDS Hospital. His surgeon is very optimistic that he was able to get all the areas of his heart that were causing both the atrial fibrillation and the atrial tachycardia. This is the fourth time Jason has had this particular surgery, known as a catheter ablation. His recovery has been surprisingly quick....just a few hours after coming out of recovery, he was up and walking the hospital halls. He's quite the trooper!
The downside to all of this is if this surgery doesn't work (and we won't know the outcome for 3-6 months), the next step we will have to take is what is called a Maze procedure. This would involve cutting open the chest cavity with an incision that runs vertically. For obvious reasons, Jason is not too delighted with that idea!
So for now, we are crossing our fingers and praying that this surgery will (finally) do the trick. Hopefully we won't have to see the inside of a hospital for a while!
2 comments:
Jill, I hope everything goes well with your husbands recent surgery.
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Jill,
Jason will be in our thoughts and prayers. Are you still in Layton? I'm in Syracuse...like 10 minutes away. We should do lunch and catch up...school's out next Friday and then I'm done with teaching so let me know.
Megan Gleason Swenson
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