- Wed Feb 15, 2017 1:00 am
#229187
Some of you may know that I was diagnosed as being in heart failure last year. Last June my LV ejection fraction was measured at just 19%. That was despite having a pacemaker/defibrillator fitted six months earlier, and open-heart surgery in 2014.
I was back at hospital today to receive the result of my latest heart scan done three weeks ago and the consultant said the ejection rate has improved dramatically, now up to 59% and almost within a normal range of someone of my age and condition. When they first checked the scan they thought they had been give the wrong file, and the scan was of another patient. But it wasn’t!
I don’t think they were expecting a result like this, so much so that one of the consultants told me keep doing what I’m doing. I told him it can only be down to prayer.
It now means the hospital can reconsider two other operations I need, one particularly serious. I was previously told that because my heart was so weak I wouldn’t wake up from the anaesthetic if any surgery was attempted. But now I’m booked for a CT scan for further investigation on the location where the aneurysm is to see how best they can plan the surgery.
My family is well pleased. So now I’m hoping I can get to Medjugorje again. It’s four years since I travelled any distance, anywhere.
God is good.
I was back at hospital today to receive the result of my latest heart scan done three weeks ago and the consultant said the ejection rate has improved dramatically, now up to 59% and almost within a normal range of someone of my age and condition. When they first checked the scan they thought they had been give the wrong file, and the scan was of another patient. But it wasn’t!
I don’t think they were expecting a result like this, so much so that one of the consultants told me keep doing what I’m doing. I told him it can only be down to prayer.
It now means the hospital can reconsider two other operations I need, one particularly serious. I was previously told that because my heart was so weak I wouldn’t wake up from the anaesthetic if any surgery was attempted. But now I’m booked for a CT scan for further investigation on the location where the aneurysm is to see how best they can plan the surgery.
My family is well pleased. So now I’m hoping I can get to Medjugorje again. It’s four years since I travelled any distance, anywhere.
God is good.
Last edited by bluecross on Thu Feb 16, 2017 3:17 pm, edited 1 time in total.
