hopeful

after a week of just not feeling right, i convinced jerry to get in to actually 'see' the doctor. his heart rate has been consistently high and his rhythm was all over the place. it was frightening listening to his heart with my stethoscope! dr. bhaktah, who is an awesome cardiologist, was very reassuring to jerry that his symptoms are normal and that he still believes he's gonna have great results from the surgery. it's just gonna take some time for the scar tissue to do what it's supposed to do. in the meantime, he put jerry on a heart monitor to see what exactly is going on and he offered some medications to try in order to help alleviate his symptoms. the other alternative if the meds don't work is to cardiovert him. this would mean shocking jerry's heart in order to produce a normal rhythm. obviously the thought of that kind of freaked us out and we were not quite prepared for that step, so he's trying the medications for a few days to see what kind of results he gets. the doctor definitely gave us hope that jerry will be totally fine after his heart has time to heal, so we were very relieved to hear that!