[Gathnet] Update from Pilgrim Rest

[Stuart Gathman]

Dear Gathnetters,
This is just a quick note to get you up on the happenings here at 
Pilgrim Rest.  I am sorry that I didn't make clear what was happening to 
Anne last week but it happened so fast, I really didn't have time to 
write properly.

Anne was sent to a specialist who does a proceedure called abulation on 
the heart.  This is a proceedure which is suppose to stop the heart 
flutter and thus reduce the risk of another stroke.  It seems (from my 
laymans eyes) that in the first chamber of the heart where the veins 
enter the heart that there are oscillations electrical pulses racing 
about the heart at about 200 to 300 pulses per minuite.  This is way to 
fast for the heart to pump so only once in a while these pulses occur 
with those of the normal heart and this is a cause of "flutter" on the 
EKG and a cause of irregular heart beat.  The Doc said that Anne had a 
classic case of this and so within in a few days he had her scheduled at 
Sharpe Grossmont Hospital for the proceedure.  The proceedure consists 
of inserting probes up the veins from her lower abdomin and into the 
heart.  They first acertain  there is the abnormal oscillations and then 
the send up another probe which burns and causes a scar at a special 
place in the chamber.  They then withdraw the probes and all is well.  
Well at the hospital, when they took the EKG, the flutter was gone and 
we thought all was a success.  However when we went back on Tuesday of 
this week to the doctor's office,  the EKG showed that the flutter and 
irregularity were back.  The doctor was very dissappointed but says this 
some times happens.  He will try and schedule another proceedure in the 
near future.

Love,  der Altgrossvater