Ablation Update

I wanted to update everyone after Patrick's procedure yesterday.

The ablation didn't go as planned. Do you remember when he had the treadmill stress test and his heart refused to malfunction? I swear, his heart is like a little toddler and does the opposite of what we want it to.

During the ablation the doctors couldn't get Patrick's heart to go into v-tach. While normally this wouldn’t be a bad thing, it prevented the doctors from being able to pinpoint exactly where they needed to perform the ablation.

I’m not certain on the specifics but I know they did the best they could. I believe they went over the scars from the previous ablation and possibly added new spots that they could see might be causing trouble.

Now for the bad stuff.

Because they couldn’t get his heart to malfunction under anesthesia, they woke Patrick up. He was strapped to the table and unable to move while they apologized to him and said they needed to keep him awake. Their hope was that the stress of feeling the pain and knowing what was happening to him would induce v-tach, but it didn’t. All it did was cause Patrick to feel an unimaginable amount of pain.

He was in pain for quite a while, including the two entry points they used on either side of his groin. But he refused pain medicine after a few hours and has since eaten and has been discharged from the hospital.

Patrick is back at the hotel now and will be coming home tomorrow just after 4pm. He hasn’t had any palpitations or v-tachs, so only time will tell how successful the doctors were.

Thank you for all the prayers and well wishes!