Friday is the day to fix my heart!

Tomorrow is the day that we have patiently been waiting for! I get to finally have my 4th cardiac ablation, and I am hoping that the 4th time is the charm. I have some jitters, but I am really excited. The past few days I have had to be completely off my medication and it has not been a pleasant experience but today I was able to rest and I feel ready for tomorrow! I am also really happy that I get to have my procedure at the hospital where I work and I feel like I will be in great hands with all the wonderful nurses and my two experienced doctors.

So please keep me in your prayers that everything will be okay and that my doctors will be able to fix me, and pray for my amazing husband Joe that he will be comforted during the procedure.

Little Reunions

Last week one of my really good friends from high school got married. Congratulations James! And we were able to go and see friends and have a mini 9 year high school reunion for me! I really think that my good friends in high school were the best and helped me make good decisions and didn't pressure me to do anything crazy. Most of them are married or are planning weddings of their own. It was fun to get to know their new spouses better. It makes me really excited for my 10 year reunion next summer!
It was also such a fun surprise to see one of my old roommates! My old roommate Emilie served a mission with the bride. It was fun to catch up with her and meet her new little cute baby. It is just crazy how time flies.

We have a date!!

I had my appointment with my doctor today and it looked like my tests were all helpful and he said I have an incredibly healthy heart (all the valves, and structure look great), but that my heart truly does not know how to beat. I also got an answer to why I always get the hiccups, turns out my heart is responsible for that too!

The big day is Friday July 8th!!! I am so excited for this. Thanks for all of your prayers!!

No longer homeless and other things

I can breathe a big sigh of relief...We found a place to live! It is about 5 minutes away from where we are now. We looked into buying a condo, and we almost put an offer in, but it turns out it sold the day before we were going to put an offer in. We will be basement dwellers once again. This house has a beautiful backyard and the house has some character to it. We move in next Saturday!

Heart update: So this past week I had a lot of tests for my heart. The first was a tilt table test. aka: torture or worst test ever. Keep in mind I had to go off my medication for 3 days before the test, and I get symptomatic if I am 2 hours late for my medication. This is how the test works. The patient lays flat and they are strapped to a table that tilts to 70 degrees so that the patient is almost standing. Every minute blood pressure, heart rate and rhythm are being monitored. The patient has 40 minutes to pass out in the standing position. If they don't pass out in the allotted 40 minutes then they are then brought back to the lying position and medication that is designed to stress the heart out is injected, and the nurse is waiting the whole time for the patient to pass out. If the patient is still unable to pass out the table it tilted to 70 degrees which stresses the heart. The goal of the test is to have the patient pass out...fun right? I did not pass out, but I was eventually given the medication and my heart reacted. My heart rate shot up to 270 which I do believe is an all time high for me. It was miserable, but my doctor was in the room and I had a handful of nurses. Before I knew it my doctor was getting my consent to cardiovert (shock) my heart, which I eagerly agreed to. But I guess it was worth it because my doctor said he learned a lot about my heart. I get to meet with my doctor on Monday and that is the day we get to set a date for my ablation.

Did I mention that Joe is up here for the weekend? I am so happy!

Moving on...

So much is going to happen in June that it is overwhelming! Yesterday we found out that we need to be out of the basement of the house where we have enjoyed living for the past 3 years because the home has sold. This has been our first apartment together so it is a bit sad. But now I am on the hunt for a new apartment and a hunt it has been.

I always hear stories from older people about how when they were at BYU their kitchen and bathroom were in the same room. I thought that those places have been torn down, but oh boy was I wrong. I got to see one yesterday, and it was scary. Maybe I'm just picky...but we will not be renting that place. The place we live now is amazing and so our bar it seems has been set high. So I am still on the search to find a place.

I have girls camp June 13-15th. Need I say more??? I am feeling really overwhelmed at this time. Luckily the weather has been terrible so camp was cut 2 days short :)

Update on my heart: My insurance should win a gold medal in pushing me around. They

They told me for about a week and a half that my ablation at the Mayo clinic has been denied and denied and denied some more. So after discussing my options with my doctor I decided to have 2 doctors in Provo try (Dr Wang, and Dr Hwang). They are actually very good, and some say that one of them is among the best in the world at treating my heart condition. I also feel comfort knowing I will have 2 doctors working on me during the ablation. However I will be getting lots of tests done before the procedure, and that I am not excited about. Basically because they give you drugs to stress out your heart and make it beat fast and induce arrhythmia's. I am really not excited for how that will feel. So far we don't have a scheduled date set up for the ablation, but my doctor wants it about the 3rd week in June. So I will keep you posted.

3 Years!

Today we are celebrating our 3 year anniversary! I am so happy to be married to my best friend and the love of my life!

updates

This past weekend I went down to St. George and got moved into our apartment down there. I call it our vacation home since I will be living up in Provo when I am working. We got a great deal on a 3 bedroom 2 bath apartment that is downtown and in the middle of everything. We even have a small pool, so if you are passing through you will have a place to stay!


Joe started his internship at Bingham and Snow and is enjoying it. He works 3 days a week at the St. George office and then 2 days a week he travels to Mesquite to work in that office. I am so proud of him.


I have an appointment to get my "stubborn heart" worked on. My ablation is scheduled for June 20th, but I have appointments starting on June 16th. So I will be out in Minnesota for about a week and a half total. The insurance is giving me the run around and it has not been approved yet because it is out of network. So we have been praying a lot lately that the insurance will approve it. It has been a real headache and part of me wants to give up on the whole Minnesota thing and give another local doctor a chance to fix this broken heart. Why are insurances so difficult?