Late October

So, it's been quite a while since I posted here. An update on Joe. His diagnosis is 'junctional tachycardia', which is an irregular heartbeat (arrythmia) that's up to 180 bpm. He had a EPS (study to check it out) and they did catheter ablation (but didn't 'ablate' or freeze any tissues). The reason they didn't freeze any tissues to 'correct' the heartbeat seemed to be because it would cause risk of putting a pacemaker in. This 'junctional tachycardia' is basically sending out crazy electrical signals in Joe's body. I know he is going to try to quit smoking and maybe decrease his caffeine and stress. This will help not to 'aggravate' the situation, but was not the cause of it (he was born with this). He goes back to work Friday (Halloween) and is going to follow-up with his doctor in a few weeks to talk about medication.