Re: Should I just go for it?

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Posted by Henry Alken on November 26, 2003 at 22:32:25:

In Reply to: Re: Should I just go for it? posted by Carley Mill on November 25, 2003 at 16:57:58:

Carley,

I see that you like to cut to the chase, as they say. I like that. So I will respond in kind.

As an intro to what I want to say let me mention that I have just received a signed letter from Dr Patrick McCarthy at the Cleveland Clinic, asking me to get a follow-up EKG and to mail it to him in order to assist him in his research. I have made the necessary appointment with my local doc to comply with the wishes of this marvelous, incredibly talented surgeon.

That said. Would I go again through six years of being chemically abused by six different cardiologists all the while being told by them that the Maze was experimental and unproven? No, I would not.

Would I go again through multiple cardioversions and a failed Ablation? No, I would not.

Would I take the risk of a trans-septal, left-atrium PVA with the attendant risks of severe stenosis, stent failure and lung resection? No, I would not.

I would send my records to Dr McCarthy and request his earliest appointment for a Maze.

It is now two years since my Maze. For me, at 69 years old, it was easy and painless. I was walking the ward the next day. I never used the pain pills they gave me. I didn't need to. Today, I have great difficulty in finding where Dr McCarthy cut my sternum. It is just about invisible. I take no meds and am in great health.

If it were not for Jack's Message Board and the great people who inhabit it, I would still be stumbling around taking Rhythmol, Toprol XL, Betapace, Vasotec, Lanoxin/Digoxin, Coumadin and God knows whatever else they could come up with.

For me, the Maze by Dr McCarthy at the Cleveland Clinic is the Gold Standard.

I say, "Go for the gold!"

Henry

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