Tucker Travels

Happy New Year!

Here we sit, Arnold watching football on TV and me trying to update this blog. Many of you know that this has been a stressfull year for us and especially for Arnold. The stress has ended up putting a strain on Arnold's heart to the extent that his ejection rate is only 35%. Normal is 40% to 75%. This means that he gets winded and tired much easier and that he is also at an increased risk for Sudden Cardiac Death due to an irregular heart beat of the left ventricle. To help prevent this and give him more freedom he is wearing a www.Lifecor.com Life Vest Defibulater and battery pack. This will shock him if he goes into defib and get his heart started again and then we call the EMTs. So far all has been quiet and that is the way we hope to keep it. He is on new medication and will go for an echo gram on the 4th of January to see if the medication is increasing his ejection fraction. We are hopeful. This will also decide if we go to AZ or not and have more travels to report. So until we know more, that's all for now. See you next year.

JJ

posted by J J Tucker @ 8:05 PM