A new test!

Last week I am scheduled for a new test. A TEE, trans esophageal echo. I've never heard of it, and its never been mentioned before. In theory it gives the Cardiologist a better look at the valve and the amount of leakage. I really didn't have any hopes my diagnosis would change.

Now no one had told me that the stress echos and the non-stress echoes weren't definitive. But apparently they aren't. If anything they may have been misleading because the TEE shows I have severe leakage! I am not even awake yet and they are telling Paula that I need to get the valve replaced. We then spend a half an hour with a surgeon going over the options. Me a little groggy from the anesthesia and Paula a little surprised we are suddenly talking OHS.