Posted by Carl Plaskett on September 02, 2001 at 10:37:15:
In Reply to: Promised Chronology posted by Dave Funderburg on September 01, 2001 at 21:32:16:
Dave: I'm sure I join the rest of the "mazers" in excitement that you are doing so well. If you are like most of us, each day will bring new, almost forgotten vitality, which will lead you to believe you can do almost anything. It is a new life!
It also exciting to know of another great surgeon/facility willing to help those with A-fib...NOW!
Please keep the board up-to-date on your weekly progress. This will help others who are contemplating getting on with their lives rather than waiting for some "new" cure, as most of us did for waaaaay too long.
I thought about a T-shirt or bumper sticker before, since I cannot contain my enthusiasm whenever I hear of someone who has or knows someone with AF. Jack's thought of people thinking the "Maze" might refer to one having been wandering around, lost" seems pretty appropriate, since most of us were faced with a maze of mis-information, difficult to find information, the mental maze or confusion from drugs, then...we finally found our way through the maze to find that we were no
longer lost, the answer was...the "MAZE".
Thanks to those who went for it earlier and to Jack Drum, who provided a forum for "mazers" to share their experiences, many more have benefited from this info and gone forward. I know that I was about ready to decide upon the maze, but had very little contact with or knowledge of anyone who had actually been through it. The encouragement of those on this board, which I discovered only in October, 2000, barely a month after Jack started it, put me in touch with both recipients and "Those considering it". Actually seeing survivors
(Ed Wehan & Mike Johnson) and knowing of several others at the Cleveland Clinic at the same time in January, got me so excited about the future, I still get emotional remembering how much that support meant to me.
Perhaps a shirt with an elaborate maze, with "dead-ends" (various drugs, SOME ablations), and the end of the maze showing the "Cox Maze III", might be a first idea. Any more thoughts out there? I'd like one which might make cardiologists ask us about it, since so many of them seem to know much less about AF and the "maze" than us.