[trapin]

Roger...I'm floored. Wolf Parkinson White Syndrome...I had the same thing about 5 years ago and had the same procedure done. Like you it took 5 hours and I kept waking up in the operating room (cold as a meat locker in that damn room as I remember). They were successful with mine. Where did you have it done? Mine was done by a renowned doctor at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. He's the same guy that did Joey Harrington's ablation when he had his problem. I forget his name...foreign guy. Yes...it's a birth defect and is corrected by actually buring the errant electrical pathway off the heart's wall with radio frequencies. My heart didn't race though, what happened is through my life my heart would flutter from time to time. I never thought anything of it until one day at work I was in the studio for a meeting and I felt my heart flutter as it would normally do maybe 3 or 4 times a year and this time it didn't stop. I then got a massive head rush and then dizzy and my heart went into what is known as Atrial Fibrillation. It didn't hurt or anything but my heartbeat became erratic (felt like a squirrel was running around in my chest). Scary stuff. Roger...I'll drop you a line this weekend.