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Unexpected Cardiac Ablation

Janco Vorster-My Afib Heart
5 min readOct 30, 2020

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I was only meant to go for a consultation but things turned and a heart ablation was on the cards.

Photo by Piron Guillaume on Unsplash

My heart went out of rhythm 5 times this year. The first one was on 6 January 2020.

I don’t smoke, not overweight, do not misuse alcohol, and don’t have high blood pressure.

But I was born with Tetralogy of Fallot(TOF). And I have had a long heart journey.

I’ve had 4 cardioversions this year.

All of them were for atrial fibrillation (AFIB)and I felt blessed that my heart cardioverted after the joules were administered.

Some of my cardiologist’s comments.

“Every time I cardiovert you I’m surprised to see that your heart goes back into normal sinus rhythm” Well this year it stayed in rhythm for only a few months at a time and then went back into AFIB. My longest AFIB free run this past 20 years has been 4 and a half years.

“You are a sitting duck for a stroke” Because atrial fibrillation patients are 5 x more likely to get a stroke.

By the grace of God, I’ve had a full life and actually a very blessed life.

The test.

It started with a high average resting heart rate. Because I’m on a beta-blocker my average resting heart rate is in the ’40s…

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Janco Vorster-My Afib Heart
Janco Vorster-My Afib Heart

Written by Janco Vorster-My Afib Heart

www.myafibheart.com Blogger, Tetralogy of Fallot(TOF), AFIB(Atrial fibrillation) and panic! survivor. Weight & Body tracker notebook https://amzn.to/3hVGCUd

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