I Finally Caught A Break

Most regular readers and lurkers know that I have been having some health issues recently. The gallbladder was taken care of before Christmas and the only other issue left to deal with was the heart arrhythmia that had been plaguing me since about mid May of last year.

Various drugs were tried and tossed out mostly due to side effects that I was not prepared to live with. Both Metoprolol and Norasc left me incredibly tired, with severe leg and foot pain and worst of all severe depression. Those are common side effects I discovered.

I stopped the drugs and made some dietary changes the biggest of which was to almost totally cut salt from our diets. That seems to have had the desire effect since my blood pressure is now normal, my legs don't hurt and other than the normal winter blues I am not depressed.

My Cardiologist decided that heart ablation was the best therapy for me and I mentally prepared myself for that ordeal. Today I had my long awaited appointment with the Heart Clinic and surgery was discussed. He pretty much agreed with me that the stress of caring for my Mom and the stress of her hospitalization prior to her death could have caused most of my problems. We reached a mutual decision that since I had been good since before Christmas I wouldn't need this surgery at this time. That made me really happy. Of course it may still happen in future but as long as I don't have arrhythmia on a daily basis I'm good to go.

To celebrate I had lunch out with a good friend in beautiful downtown Unionville and bought some wool for socks. My friend also bought me some beautiful silk yarn as a present and it will also be used for socks, yup silk socks. I'll post the pictures on my knitting blog later this weekend.

Oh, I almost forgot...I got tagged from Braveheart for a Meme. I'm going to have to think about this one over the weekend.