Another Cardiologist

So today I took Amanda to another cardiologist who explained her condition in great detail. It was amazing that this is a common condition in infants and teenagers. Hmmm..kind of explains the episodes when she was an infant and now... Anyway he also went to great lengths at the procedure which sounds really cool and not something scary at all. I must say technology has come a long long way over the last 16 years! He was in no hurry to do the procedure (notice I am not refering to it as surgery because it really is not surgery as it is more of a procedure than anything). He wanted to really monitor when she has an episode so it will show up on the EKG and he can have a better understanding of what is going on inside. He gave her this cool looking device that she holds up to her heart and records for 30 seconds. She sends the recording over the phone and it will go right into the computer and show them her heartrate. She does this each time she feels her heart rate increase. He says the condition is not life threatening so she can have an episode and work through it - he gave her vagal maneuvers she could do to stop it. If those do not work and it continues for 30 minutes we have to go to ER. At that time they would administer medication to slow it down.

Also, if she looses this device it will cost us $2500 to replace! Yikes!