INTRO

My name is Andi. I live with a heart condition called AVNRT (AV Node Re-entrant Tachycardia). We are not sure how long I've truly had this, but my family believes I was born with it even though I was barely diagnosed in 2011.


So I will start with a quick intro, I've never written a blog so I apologize ahead of time if it sounds weird, I think it's weird to talk about myself HAHA!

I had a few fainting episodes growing up which seemed random, but now in retrospect, I had the same exact feeling and warning signs/symptoms as my most recent syncope episode which led to a series of events leading to a diagnosis. I know now that they were all caused by tachycardia and not dehydration like previously believed.

I had a cardiac cryoablation on November 19th, 2011 at Lucille Packard Children's Hospital, a branch of Stanford Univ. Hospital that considered the AVNRT "cured" (a cessation of declined quality of life). I was 19.

Now I am age 22, going on 23.

I am one of the few 2% that regressed after the ablation, and now have had to resume cardiac care.

I'm here to share my story.

I started a bucket list in 2008 and one of the items needing to be checked off of my list is to create my own blog. So here goes nothing!

Monday, March 3, 2014

The Sick Days

I'm not talking about the days where you start off with half the spoons as normal. I'm talking about the days where you have a cold, the flu, allergies that make you wish you you had the flu.

Nobody likes being sick, but the harder part, especially for you cardiac patients, is being sick and not being able to take anything for it and you just suffer with it til it's gone.

Sudafed, nyquil, sambucol, cold-EEZE...etc, etc.

...most of these contain ingredients that raise your blood pressure and heart rate. So using these usually means you'll be worse off.

So cheers to plain chicken soup, Gatorade, saltine crackers, and Netflix!
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