Well, we've been dealing with side effects of the cancer for a while. The symptoms were dizzy spells, and not just when changing positions (like standing up). These came while sitting down and staying there.
Officially, we finally got it half-way pinned down to a heart failure diagnosis with a "reduced ejection fraction", meaning the heart wasn't pumping enough blood. When we had tests ran, the numbers came in at 41% of what it should be.
[sigh].
We next did an ablation on the heart to knock off some arrhythmia that had crept into the picture while the chemo was happening. Things were not perfect, but much better. After watching things a bit, we found that the procedure had a definite impact :
It went from about 10-20 spells per day down to about 2-5, with some days not having any at all.
Gotta get the ol' ticker running properly, and this was a good step!
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