Got some word back from Dr. Yetman regarding surgery. The doctor here who has done the cone procedure did not know if I would be a candidate for the surgery. He felt the best thing to do would be to contact the specialists back East to get their opinion. So, all my cardiac tests have been sent back to Dr. Dearani at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. Now we play the waiting game...... Dr. Yetman says we could hear back in one week or four weeks, we just don't know.

Our plan right now is to wait to hear back from Dr. Dearani. If he says he can perform this new surgery then we will get things scheduled to go back East. If we find out he cannot do this surgery then we will be talking to a heart surgeon at Primary's who will do a valve replacement.

No exact word on whether we will need to have a pacemaker or not. I think that will depend on what surgery we have and how it helps my heart function.

So, the waiting game. Hopefully we will hear something sooner than later!