Cardiac Ablation 1/3/2014

After Thanksgiving Tony went and had his heart halter put on.  The results were what we thought.  PVCs...Pre-Ventricular Contractions.  Well we can all have these, but when you are having 30 a min, or 1 every 4th and 5th beat...it needs to be fixed.

We met with the heart electo doctor and he explained how he would do the procedure.  A catheter up his groin to his heart.  They locate the area of the heart that is damaged, and kill it pretty much.  Too easy right?  I think the hardest part was making Tony lay perfectly still for 4 hours after the procedure.

My friend Erin kept all the kids for us the day and weekend of the ablation so Tony could rest.  We truly do have the best friends and support in the world...when I remember to ask for it.  LOL

Well now Tony's ticker is fixed...its time for the next surgery, Endoscopy with biopsies and JTube placement.

St. Johns!!! :)

Here we are in St. Johns.  What a great time we had...or did we.  Of course we did, but Tony was getting sicker by the day.  He had no energy, everything he ate made him sick, and he was throwing up when we snorkeled.  When we got back to North Carolina, Tony could barley get out of bed.  His heart was acting funky, he couldn't stay awake, I started screaming at his doctors until someone would listen.

Tony's oncologist told me to bring him in the next day.  His nurse told me they had a bed waiting for him.  Good thing.  His doctor is listening to his heart and got a serious look on his face.  "C'mon Tony, lets go for a walk." and he walked Tony around the cancer floor.  After that walk he hooked him up to the heart monitor and Tony's pulse was in the 40s.  Normally, its in the 90's/100's.  Tony was admitted right away.

They scanned him from head to toe.  Atrophy of his organs from the radiation was apparent now, but no cancer!!! :)  His heart though...needed a fixin.' 

During all of this my 17 year old's knee got injured during the playoffs and he needed an MRI.  So while those results were coming in, Tony was in the hospital.

On the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, Tony was discharged and we came home.  Enough time to get Tony settled, showered and off to the orthopedics for Alec's MRI results.  Guess who needs surgery???  Yep.  Alec had a 90% meniscus tear in his knee and surgery was scheduled for.......tomorrow.  Yep the very next day Alec had surgery.  So now I have big baby #1 and big baby #2 out for the count, and Thanksgiving dinner to cook.  Happy joy....NOT

Really His Gallbladder?

I haven't written in a while mainly because I just didn't have time.  Between Tony having 4 more surgeries, football, soccer, Alec having knee surgery, baseball, and well life...I've been a pretty busy mom.  LOL

It was time for September scans and Tony had this funky pain in his belly.  Scans show sludge in his gallbladder.  REALLY of all things his gallbladder.  Should've removed it during his TG.  By the time his ultrasound was done it was full of stones.  Surgery was scheduled for Sept 28th.  It was a Thursday.  When they got in there however he had adhesions between his liver and intestine so they separated that...HA  The docs make it sound soooo easy.  Well I took Tony home and his butt was back in the hospital admitted a week later.  His liver enzymes were elevated and it appeared he had a blockage in his bile duct.  OF COURSE HE DID...because Tony can't have a simple surgery without complications.  The good news the blockage cleared on its own and Tony didn't need another surgery.  Well while he was in the hospital his doctor noticed some abnormal heart beats...little did we know there would be another issue down the road.