Like a rabbit in the headlights!

[Slidingdoors99]

Thank you to everyone who has joined me on this great site in my AFib journey since 2020.

Thanks to all those folks who have replied to my posts and shared their thoughts and experiences with me.

A quick recap! Fast AFib in 2020 out of the blue. Likely candidate discovered the next year in the shape of HCM which I (and now my dear daughter) have inherited.

Two ablations and seven cardioversions.

Holter monitor showing short episodes of VT in the summer, so on the waiting list for a CRT-D implant. Op postponed twice, but it should go ahead on Wednesday.

Not sleeping much and feeling queasy about it, but yes of course I understand that it needs to happen and that it could well save my life in the future, but try telling that to my nightmares!!

It seems such a big device to me. Just wish it was the size of a pacemaker!

Anyway, please wish me luck!

Sian

[Blearyeyed]

Lots of luck , although I'm sure you won't need it. Take care , Bee

[Slidingdoors99 in reply to Blearyeyed]

Thanks Bee!

[SuziElley]

Dear Sian

We seem to have lost track of each other over the last couple of years. Lots of health issues I’m afraid, but coming out of it all now.

I shall be thinking of you and sending you lots of love. Stay strong, I’ll be sending healing energy and prayers for you.

Lots of love

Suzi xx

[Slidingdoors99 in reply to SuziElley]

Oh Suzi, that’s kind of you. Thank you. Xx

[Buffafly]

Hi, best wishes 🍀 Once you’ve become bionic woman we must meet up again. I hope the whizzy pacemaker improves your health but in any case you’ll feel safer xx

[Slidingdoors99 in reply to Buffafly]

Thank you and yes,?we should meet again for a coffee when it’s all over! X

[Desanthony]

Good Luck Sian - you have the same name as my wife so sure you will be fine!

[Slidingdoors99 in reply to Desanthony]

Thank you!

[opal11uk]

Sending very best wishes for a successful outcome x

[Midnight2022]

very good luck.

[frankiec5]

Hi again Sian

I understand your apprehension only too well - as well as the sleeplessness and queasiness. I share them all at the moment!

However, I shall be thinking of you on Wednesday and will look forward to hearing that, as with most things, the actuality proved to be a lot less worrisome than the prospect.

Onward and upwards Sian. The sunlit uplands are coming into view x

[Rainfern]

Wishing you a successful op and many years of good health to follow. Forgive the humour, but when my father in law had an earlier version of CRT-D fitted the surgeon told him he now had 20 grand worth of equipment in his chest so had a duty to live his life to the full! Which he did, magnificently, into his old age.

[Redactrice]

Best of luck, but -- are you under the care of the only cardiology team in the country that has no waiting list? I had a seven-month wait for my first cardioversion, another seven-month wait for ablation (so 14 months wait in total), still having frequent AF in the six months since then, but nobody has offered me another cardioversion and the wait for my next ablation is likely to be nine months.

[Slidingdoors99 in reply to Redactrice]

Hi! I did have to wait. Several months usually, but not anything like your awful wait… 😩

[Newtothis25]

will keep you and your family in my prayers. Hoping you come through this well and a speedy recovery 💪

[Karendeena]

All the best but please, what is HCM?

[ForensicFairy in reply to Karendeena]

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

[Pepsicoke]

All the very best and hope it's a good outcome for you, stay positive stay strong.

[Nannysue1]

Hi there. Wishing you all the best for Wednesday. I'm sure everything will be fine, it's just the thought of it isn't it. It will be over before you know it and then you'll be able to go forward with confidence. Please let us know how it goes. Sue

[Cello02]

I have HCM and also my niece who had an ICD fitted over two years ago (not sure if that’s the same as you). She has had no problems with the implant. Wishing you all the best