It’s been a while

So it’s been a bit of a journey with this heart stuff and I didn’t realise how much I had just got used to it until I got some new meds and felt I had suddenly woken up, my brain was clear for the first time in a long time. I stopped the meds last week and had my heart ablation op on tuesday. Basically they told me they would 3d map my heart and identify which nerve bundles were firing that shouldn’t be and they would zap them. I think I was led to expect it was something that would take maybe 30 min and I would be awake but hardly notice. After 3 hours, painful and uncomfortable and listening to the surgeon being taught the new equipment with my pain helping him understand what didn’t work, I also found out that fentanyl does not work for me as pain relief. But it’s done and I survived. It’s day 3 afterwards and I am having a few side effects that are a bit challenging so the journey continues.

It’s not fungi season here but I was anxious to get out in the bush before the op as I knew that it would be a few weeks before I could manage the terrain again. We were so lucky, Whirinaki is such a special, old growth forest and we found mushies 👏👏 I am particularly lucky that my friend Lee has been coaching me on taking macro photos and invited me on the walk.

Then for the op we had to drive to Hamilton, about an hour and half from here. Being worried about getting caught with road works or an accident we ended up getting there over hour and half early. So had a lovely visit to the botanical gardens, I just had my phone but the roses were spectacular, covered in dew and fragrant. I couldn’t resist a couple of photos.