Thank you for your prayers come Wednesday
I wanted to take this time to ask this illustrious body of believers to pray for me yet one more time. On Wednesday, February 3rd at about 10:00 am (Central Time) I will undergo what I am praying will be the last cardiac procedure for awhile. Unlike all the ones I have before (all 21 of them), this is not a cardiac catheterization per se, but something called an ablation.
All I have been told is that the doctor will insert a catheter through the VEIN in my groin and in due time it will end up in the upper right chamber of my heart. Once in there, he will more or less burn away whatever has appeared which has produced the fluttering I have experienced the past three months. As wild as all this sounds, it actually has a 98% success rate and a similar rate of the problem never coming back.
I do not feel it presumptuous of me at all to ask our Father God to allow me to be in the 98% as opposed to the 2%. I do not feel it being selfish or greedy to beseech our loving Heavenly Father for His protection as well as complete success in this procedure. I do not feel it is a violation of my own beliefs to in this situation simply place the whole thing into God's hands to be watched over and handled in accordance with His will.
Only a few years ago this procedure was unheard of. The only course of treatment available for fluttering in the atria (upper chambers of the heart) was to use the paddles and hope the strong electrical shock would get the rhythm back. Many times this procedure worked, but in almost every case the arrhythmia would return and the process had to repeated with more potential for horrible consequences each time.
I feel very thankful that there are few doctors out there who have mastered this new technique and are experts at it. It sort of reminds me of Lasik and how up until a few years ago, the idea of a laser being able to make your vision perfect was only something explored in Star Trek episodes. Now it is done everyday all over the world on thousands of people successfully.
I feel like the cat who has used up many of its nine lives as far as my asking for prayer cover for this procedure. I came before this group the first time a little over a year ago and then had a major procedure done in February of '09. I had a pulmonary embolism in early March and another major procedure in April and yet one more in October. Whew, that is FIVE of my NINE already used up. I am willing to use number six on Wednesday for I am praying that will be all for awhile.
Thank you in advance for any and all your prayers. I truly do thank God for you and for the joy of bringing a situation such as this to you for your prayerful consideration. Thank You.
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We have but one life brother. Eternal life! I'm glad I don't have nine lives... I would keep on forgetting where I put them
