What time is your surgery on the 18th Revvy? I'll pray for you during...
I had an opposite experience... During cataract surgery, my heart slowed 'way' down.. scared the crap out of the anesthesiologist.. I first felt faint, and then nauseous, so I figured I better say something to the surgeons, knowing that tossing up my cookies while under the gas can be deadly...
They gave me a drug to speed up my heart.. then proceeded.. but after the surgery, the heart did not slow down when the drug wore off (should have taken less than half an hour).. four hours later a cardiologist came in, and they saw an abnormality on my EKG.. the P wave was missing (whatever that is)..
So the cardiologist told me that he was going to give me a drug, that would give me a feeling of impending doom, but not to worry, it would pass in a few seconds... He gave me the drug and my entire left side of my face tightened up, I could barely breathe, my chest was in knots, and my left leg hurt terribly.. a few seconds later all was well, and my heart rate slowed back down from 160 to normal.. He had induced a mild heart attack...
He then told me that I had a genetic condition where the 'wiring' on my heart has a short circuit that sometimes causes the signal to get caught in a feedback loop..
When I was a kid, I scared the crap out of my mom a couple times, in that you could hear my heart sloshing from across the room when I was laying on my side..
Several times in the couple years prior to the event during surgery, i would have panic attacks.. I thought I might be having heart attacks... Sometimes this feeling would last for minutes, or hours, and a few times for days... I would go into the emergency room and they would check me out and find nothing... Of course I would always be feeling fine by the time I got there and got hooked up to the EKG...
What was happening, is that I was experiencing this short circuit and my heart was racing...
The heart surgeon told me that it was not really dangerous, and more of an annoyance than anything... he gave me some cholesterol drugs, that although I did not have a problem with that, have a side effect of slowing the heart rate... He said if the problems continues or gets so bad I can't stand it, they can do a simple outpatient surgery, where they go in through a small incision and 'cut the wire' that is causing the short circuit (it's not supposed to be there)....
So, in the end, although the situation on the operating table was very serious at the time, it turned out to be a blessing, because now I know what is wrong with me, and that it is not life threatening or life limiting... And I also now know what a heart attack 'really' feels like (It is 'not' fun, extremely painful, immobilizing, and scary as hell)...
The other benefit to it, was that they did a thorough sonogram (I forgot the name for it, but it's specific for the heart), and the tech said he saw 'nothing' abnormal or unhealthy in my heart.. No plaque or hardening, or restrictions of any kind...
So in the end, I got a clean bill of health and peace of mind...
Sounds like when you're through this, you'll have all that too..
God Bless you man, and may the Good Lord do a great. problem free work through the hands and minds of all involved with your surgery.. It's miraculous what they can do with modern medicine nowadays...