yes, but you're a young 80....

We are having a fine holiday weekend. The weather is typical--snow showers, rain, clouds--clean air! So, a lot of TV and reading and, of course, eating.

You may assume--correctly--from the foregoing that health things are going well for me at the present. They are. My recovery seems to be as full as it may get from my second ablation. This last couple weeks I have had no trouble doing my usual workout. Upon follow up, my rhythm doc cut back the amio. 75%--from 800 mg to 200 mg. There have been no untoward effects of that, but it has only been a few weeks and that stuff lurks for sometime. I have an appointment with the rhythm guys on the day we leave for AZ in the first week of Dec. I expect they will dc the amio at that time. We'll see.

I had my semi-annual follow up with the Heart Failure Clinic this past week. The PA, a very knowledgeable women whom I have seen before provided this post's title. That made me feel good. She was a little concerned that my current resting HR is in the mid-50s. She would like to see it in the low 60s to prevent a "block". So she cut back on my beta blocker from 50 mg of metoprolol to 25 mg. at night. Apparently amio has some beta blocker-like effects as well so the two together might be lowering my HR. She thought that cutting the metoprolol might raise my overall pulse rate. Then we will monitor that dose with the possible effects of dc'ing the amio.

So, at this juncture, no news from me is good news.

Happy holidays!