Prayer Request

This prayer request is from the heart… no, for the heart… umm, about the heart. I don’t know how to say it. Seriously though, if you don’t already know, back in February, I developed a case of Lone Atrial Fibrillation. That basically means that my heart throws an extra beat out there once in a while. It’s not really serious and is actually very common. The doctors don’t know what caused it and believe that it is just a one-time freak thing but I still need to get it fixed. How you say? With paddles. You know the paddles that they use to jump start a heart and where they yell “clear!” so no one accidentally gets electrocuted. Yeah, those. I think they reverse the polarity or something… I hope. Anyway, in about 30 days or so I’ll be having the procedure, called a Cardioversion, done. It only takes about 3 minutes but I will have to be completely out to do it and it has to be done at the hospital. I wanted to be awake for the shock so I could experience it and then write about but they won’t let me. Mainly it’s because the heart is more ‘stable’ when you’re asleep; it had nothing to do with the intense pain that the shock will cause. I have also started a new medication that could possibly (1 in 3 odds) correct my heart rate as well as my heart rhythm. If it works, no paddles!

Anyway, here’s my prayer request: first, that the new meds work and nothing else has to be done; if not, that the subsequent procedure goes well. Also, please pray that God takes away any of the anxiety or the worry that my family and I may have.

Thanks,

- fletch