January 2, 2008 -


It is with great joy that a cardiologist and electrophysiologist moved recently to Fayetteville. Many times I have been told after having a heart cath that they couldn't find anything. Then Dr. Bagomilov finds his way from Bulgaria to being on call on the weekend that I occupied a bed in Washington Regional hospital. He said, "we can't see anything unless we go behind the branch bundle block." Sounds rational, yes, but for years no other cardiologists, plumbers as opposed to electricians as one of the plumbers said, thought to check behind the bundle. Thank God that Fayetteville now has an electrician. I count my blessings. Did I ever tell you the one about going to the ER four years ago and they decided to stop my heart. They couldn't get the beats down soooooooooo. They stopped it, everyone came in to make sure it started up again-much to my relief it clicked right back on. When it stopped there was a kind of sickening feeling as if one has bent over too quickly. Thank God it decided to go on with my life because they had a lot of scary things hanging around in case it was rebellious. My point is that this electricity was bouncing around in a circle in my heart instead of being logical and minding its manners and doing the proper thing. So the ablation made it tow the line.

This whole procedure made me more aware of the fact that electricity has a lot to do with how our bodies function. Did any of you ever hear anything other than blood flows around in the heart while in school? Somehow if it was discussed it went right over my heart, uh head. I had no idea that we have electrical circuits running everything, including the heart. Having an electrical heart was new to me. My ignorance was a "shock" to me. To procede, the surgery was about 7:oo or so in the morning, birds singing outside not aware of important things taking place close by. The surgery, under a general, took 4-1/2 hours. Anyway I digress. The first time they tried to persuade the rebellious electrical wave to buck up and do the right thing (by ablating the heart wall) it refused to. They have to wait about 25 minutes and then try and see if they have been successful. So the fourth repair (or burning) worked. The volt conceeded and now I'm healed, no pesky electricity to spoil my fun. The Dr. said that the surgery was really a tough one (guess I never have been one to behave appropriately at all times).

Christmas was lovely, we had a tiny tree in the front window with lights and a few other things around but my real celebration was to count my blessings. Putting it another way, "Peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto you: Not as the world giveth; Give I unto you." John 14:27

My son, Shelby came over and cooked several dishes for Christmas, which were consumed not too gracefully. Turkey and ham and lots of other food. My daughter, Kamesha came over with the grandchildren, Kyra Ann, 10 and Chris, 8. We all laughed a lot and shared presents, mostly the grandchildren. I don't need another tie-ha, ha or a washing machine. I'm now walking an hour each morning. Today I broadcasted 60 pounds of sunflower seed all over the yard. The birds love it and I prefer it to the little bird feeders that are robbed by the crafty tree rats. I've never seen anything that a tree rat can't conquer. We have lots of cardinals, yellow finches, junkos, and flocks of doves. I opened the front door early in the morning and 10 or so doves flew off. Apparently they were staying the night.

Thank you for your concern, it means a lot. I'm glad that I'm still carring the Warrior flag and look forward to the homecoming next ,er, this year 2008. Happy new year.

Love,
Patsy



Dear friends,

Send some prayers my way this Thursday the 29th. I'll be going in at 5AM and having surgery at 7:30 AM. Always best to be the first surgery, hope he's awake.

After being tired for about two years and thinking it was the ole loyal lungs , thanks for any air you give me, found out I need a heart ablation (see Cleveland clinic on web) . I have an arrhythmia that is the AV nodal reentrant tacycardia kind or AVNRT. Or Tacky cardia. I've had to go into the ER over the years and they have even stopped my heart before .

This time I was in the hospt Thurs thru Tues and THANK GOD, there was a electrophysiologist/cardioloist on call. This is reminesant of finding my MAI by chance, anyway, he realized that the branch bundle I have in my heart did not allow them to see the necessary part of my heart when they did a regular heart cath. so he did it so the problem area could be seen, and it was. YES. His name is Bogomilov (as in rice pelaf except bogo melaf) He is the only electrophphysiologist here and hasn't been here long. I've had many heart caths, but this is the first one by an electro man.

I'm having it done in Rogers, Ar. at the Washington Regional hospital. It's under a general and can take from 4 to 6 hours. Then the hard part , I have to lay for 6 hours WITHOUT MOVING MY LEGS! My mother used to tell me to quit shaking my legs around since as far back as I can remember, so send me thoughts for embolization of the legs.
Maybe I should have eaten more turkey and fattened up my legs so I couldn't move them.

Guess I'll be later going to NIH than normal Daphne, don't give up on me.

Much heart felt love,

Pat Moore o' Arkansas November, 2007