After years on AFib medication, this person had a cardioversion in August, then a 4.5-hour catheter ablation in September. Two months later, a heart monitor caught a 9.5-second pause, so she got a pacemaker. Three procedures in six months to fix one arrhythmia.
I, I've had atrial fibrillation episodes for a few years now, and it's been controlled with medication. But then I started to have some— my cardiologist, after an exam, she said, no, this is happening too often. And so they decided that I should— to get me out of AFib this one time, I would have what's called— what they call a cardioversion, which is the electric shock of the heart, which gets the rhythm back. So I went— that's a hospital procedure. That was in August I had that done. They put you out. They had to shock me twice. My heart was back in regular rhythm, but the cardiologist that was there that day said, I think you should have an ablation. An ablation is a procedure where they, they go in through your groin and they snake up into your heart, and they have these electrodes and they zap your heart. on the inside. It's kind of a big deal. It's a 4.5-hour procedure and you're under general anesthetic. So I had that done in September and that was supposed to completely get rid of the AFib. And we thought it did until they had me wear a heart monitor in December and I had to wear that for 2 weeks. And then they— when they read it, she saw that there was a day that I had a 9.5 second lapse without a heartbeat. So I remember it because that morning I felt kind of dizzy and everything. So then she said, okay, you can't live like this. We're gonna have to do the pacemaker. So that was— I've had the 3 heart procedures in like 4, 5, 6 months.
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