Diary of a Bipolar

I am home now. They did the sinus node ablation and cardiac mapping yesterday. I had a bad reaction to the anesthesia and so they kept me overnight. The procedure started around 1 pm and I only barely remember waking for a few minutes at 9 pm, then again around 1am and 4 am, but I was throwing up alot which I don't remember much of. Overnight there were several 5-6 second pauses in my heart rate, but that could have been on account of getting sick, so I have a Holter monitor now, and he sees me again on the 18th. My resting heart rate is now about 48, and he wants me to do some moderate activity while I've got the Holter on (I'll probably do tomorrow morning) and let him know how I'm feeling. Based on that and the Holter results he'll decide if I need the pacemaker or not.

So the glucose tolerance test was normal. This is good news! The thyroid is stable for the moment. Also good news. On Monday 11/27 I'm having surgery. And actually this is good news too. I'm too lazy to write it out, so visit my MySpace blog if you want. And add me if you have one too. http://blog.myspace.com/phillygirlinmissouri

In other news, I am taking temporary guardianship of my 5 year old niece. My sister is training with the post office and her hours are going to be crazy, so I'll have Janell until her training is done. My daughter and I are thrilled to have her, and Walter is looking forward to having a little one around too. I leave on Tues 11/21 to get her and will be home on Saturday night, just in time to get her settled and enrolled in school for Monday, when I have the surgery.

The bipolar has been fairly stable. I've still got constant song snippets or something in my head which is really annoying but I guess I'm stuck with them, and I should be grateful that I'm as stable as I am. I've definitely been overspending... but that may just be "me" and not the bipolar.

So I'll check back after the surgery. Wish me luck!