[Loch-Ruadh] Re: Mordikar's Medical Condition

[Julie Self]

We all wish you both the best.  Remind us next week!
Gwenllian
Loch Ruadh Rocks!!





>From: "Ilishna" <ilishna1 at earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: loch-ruadh at ansteorra.org
>To: <loch-ruadh at ansteorra.org>
>Subject: [Loch-Ruadh] Re: Mordikar's Medical Condition
>Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 19:53:18 -0800
>
>     Hello All,
>
>     This is for all of you who do not know. On Sunday March 23, we arrived
>back from California at around 4:00 to 5:00. That evening around 11:45
>Mordikar's heart for whatever reason decided to start pumping really fast.
>After much debate, arguement and pulling out ili's hair, (three times
>asked), he decided to go to the hospital.
>
>Note: He was in NO pain, his heart was just racing really fast for longer
>than 1 minute. He's always had this type of thing happen but it always
>stopped after a few seconds, and he didn't have one for the past two years.
>We didn't think anything of it, because it's never been anything close to
>serious. However this time it lastest for a long time.
>
>     Once we arrived at the hospital, after giving him medicine to slow
>down
>his heart beat, and regulate his heart beat, he had a convulsion, died and
>was revived with electrical shock. We then were told that he has WPW (Wolf
>Parkinsons White Syndrome.) We've already done the research on WPW, and the
>Dr. there said that it is treatable with medicine, however it's not curable
>by medicine. He then refered to us to Dr. Wade McBridal. The Er Dr., Dr
>Richard Dixon, told us most likely Dr. Wade McBridal will suggest surgery,
>because it's 100% curable that way.
>
>     For those who don't know what WPW is it's an extra pathway for the
>electrical impulse to flow through. Dr. Wade McBridal believes Mordi's
>extra
>pathway is around the lower left ventrical of the heart, but he doesn't
>know
>for sure.
>
>     We spoke with Dr. Wade McBridal today, and ,just as Dr. Richard Dixon
>predicted, he suggests Mordikar to have what they call a Catheter Ablation.
>It's a simple procedure with very little risk done by a Catheter/probes.
>They run one to make sure his heart beat stays normal through the
>procedure.
>Another to find the extra pathway, and they then burn it off with heat
>either off a third probe or the one they found it with.
>
>     He will have this surgery on Friday 11, 8:00 am. If all goes well they
>will keep him overnight, and he will be allowed to leave Saturday morning
>or
>afternoon. He will then have to take it easy for a few days.. (weeks if I
>can get him too.) After that he will be back to his usual self, able to
>start fighting again, and doing the things Mordi and I have become known to
>do.
>
>     I appreciate any prayers that you can give. We have high hopes that
>everything will be smoothly. Dr. Wade McBridal has been doing this
>procedure
>for 14 years, and hasn't had a patient die. I figures that really good
>batting averages. It's a 1% that something could go wrong however it's 95%
>to 98% that everything goes smoothly, where the other 1% went too.. I don't
>know.. and didn't think to ask until I looked at the papers when I got
>home.
>
>     I will do what I can to try to keep everyone informed of his condition
>after the surgery. Mostly by e-mail as I do not have phone numbers for some
>of the people out in the SCA that we are friends with.
>
>Smiles,
>ili
>
>
>
>
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