shocking

Yesterday we got up at 4:30 in order to have th'Mr at the hospital by 6:30 so that at 7:30 they could shock his heart back into normal rhythm. Dr. Raghu has been wanting to do this for about a year now, when this weird rhythm and racing was first discovered. About 8 he came to me in the waiting room and said what I understood to be, "He's back in room eleven." I repeated that back to him, with a question mark at the end, and he laughed and said, "He's back in normal rhythm. I only had to shock him once." This was the shocking-with-paddles, "stand clear," you see in movies. Th'Mr says he slept through it, and whatever anesthetic they gave him worked instantly; not some gradual fading out but fine one moment and gone the next. What's delayed this for so long is getting and keeping his blood at the consistency they deemed necessary; it's been cycling from too thick to too thin and back again. Next appointment is Friday week.