RIDGE HAS HEART SURGERY

These pictures are not in order of events. Ridge went in yesterday to get an ablation on some tissue in his heart. They didn't know where it was at but would find it when they got in there. They went through three veins, 2 in his leg and one in his neck. (Not open heart surgery) The doctors or nurses would call about every hour to give an update. It was so nice to be able to hear how it was going. The surgery took about 4 1/2 hours. We found out the tissue was very near the control center of his heart. This means they had to freeze it off and not burn it off. Freezing it is more if a risky surgery and doesn't have as high as a success rate but when they start freezing it and if something goes wrong, they can unfreeze it. If they burn it, as soon as it is burned they can't stop. So they freeze it just a little but to see if it still conducts electricity. Once they were confident that it was the right spot and there wouldn't be problems, they froze it all the way. When Ridge first went into surgery they made his heart go into SVT (where it beats over 200 a minute). They said they could easily get him to go into SVT. When the surgery was finished they tried to get him into SVT and couldn't. The success rate with the freezing is about 90 percent so we hope they got it!!!