Memorial Health University Medical Center has Wi-Fi, which is quite nice. You would think all hospitals would have it, but you’d be wrong. Because of my mom, dad and Eddie, I’ve sampled many hospitals.
Anyway, thanks to Memorial’s Wi-Fi, I’m able to write and upload this post. Eddie is having his third, and last (I hope), cardiac ablation today.
What’s that? Well, it is a procedure where a cardiologist (as opposed to a dermatologist, or someone who stayed at a Holiday Inn) threads a catheter into the heart and burns the crap out of the part of the heart that is causing it to beat irregularly. Read this for a more technical overview.
Eddie has had this procedure twice already, so I don’t know how much non-scarred tissue there is left. After each ablation, the doctor has said, “That should do it.” And it hasn’t. Yes, we got a second opinion. The second doctor just wanted to keep shocking Eddie’s heart back into rhythm, all “ER” style.
Anyway, here we are, at Memorial again, and hoping for the best.
Observe and report 
I had to look the procedure up last week when you mentioned he was having it. What scares me is that they actually work to cause damage to the heart…..I am crossing my fingers and praying for this to be it.
Northside has WiFi too as I discovered with my grandma’s surgeries. When Brian had his bypass I couldn’t even locate a shower at Saint Joe’s that didn’t have an hour wait…..
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