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June 3: Again, nothing for my entry but another medical report. I saw my heart specialist and a colleague of his. Strange, disconcerting visit: they had to adjust the dosage of the Coumadin they have me on, and my being on Penicillin because of the tooth infection made the surgical procedure I was scheduled for next Wednesday iffy, but what was worrisome is that they spent quite a bit of time discussing how to keep my heart rate normal as if I'd have a stroke if they didn't do just what they needed to with additional drugs. For a while, they wanted me to go immediately to a hospital where I would be put on some new medication and monitored for 24 hours at the hospital. Blah. Then they go on the phone with my atrial ablation guy (the one who would do the surgical procedure). All turned out well: no new medication or overnight at the hospital. I'm merely to see the surgeon in his office next week to discuss what he now wants to do, which will be some variation on what he previously was going to do, but will seem the same to me, according to my main cardiologist. He and his colleague (a personable, attractive woman who remembered me vaguely from poetry readings we'd both been to, and I her) assured me that caffeine probably had very little to do with my condition. I still plan to give up Mountain Dew, though.
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