Tonys update thread surgery 5-5-14

I don't want to gross anyone out with the following pics,
but these were removed from my heart. You can clearly
see the two patches that were implanted in 1992 when they
implanted my defib.

The second pic is either scar tissue or part of the sac that surrounds
the heart.

The scar tissue had gotten so bad that it was constricting the
pumping of my heart.

Talked with one of my doc's yesterday and we discussed how quickly
I went downhill in the last three weeks. He agreed with me that
time would have been short for me if I was not operated on post
haste.

This procedure is so rare that this was the first time it was done
in the Community Hospital Group in Indy. There was a doctor from
the IU Med Center that had performed two of these in the last
20 years. The two doctors talked before the procedure was done.

Thanks again for all of the prayers.

Tony