May 9, 2012

First of all happy 63rd birthday to the greatest singer songwriter in the world, Billy Joel. Secondly finally had my long awaited appointment with the specialist in Denver. Within a month's time they will be doing a procedure called "Alcohol Septal Ablation" What basically happens here is they insert a cath into my artery then they will inject ethanol alcohol into the artery that supplies blood to the thickened heart muscle. The alcohol causes a "good" (their words not mine) heart attack which shrinks the thickened septal heart muscle. They say when this septal muscle is smaller it will no longer block the flow of blood to the body. As for the risks they say sometimes the heart attack causes a chance in the heart's rhythm and then they need to install a pace maker. But will only be in hospital for a few days so at least its not too bad. But anyway that is what I have to look forward to in my near future. Thanks for listening to me complain. -Johnny V.