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Yet more sickness updates

Well, the infection and its side effects have pretty much disappeared. The leg gets better every day. It was giving me trouble every day towards the evening, but as of yesterday there were merely twinges.

But it's always something. I seem to have developed a second arrythmia to go along with my long-suffering SVT. When I was in the hospital, I had a brief episode of atrial fibrillation, which was treated successfully with digoxin and got me put on a heart monitor for 24 hours. Now yesterday am I woke to another bout of it, necessitating a trip to the ER and a boost in my beta blocker dosage. My electro-physiologist is now wondering whether the SVT is related to the afib, and he hopes to be able to clear it all up when I undergo the second catheter ablation ("this time for sure!" - Bullwinkle J Moose) in September.

None of this, the SVT or the afib, is life-threatening in my case. They're more just annoyances. The afib could be dangerous if I had long (24 hour or more) episodes, because there would be the risk of clotting and stroke. I have relatively short attacks (I was in afib for about 4 hours yesterday, and apparently converted back to sinus rhythm on my own), am taking daily aspirin and am at very low risk for clotting anyway. So I'm not in danger. But I want this stuff gone. I am sick of it, I am sick of being sick, and I have to say that strep skin infections are a terrible way to lose 20 lbs, but I'll take the weight loss anyway.