Linda Hoffman

A few weeks ago Linda visited her primary care Dr. and while

she was there her heart was in AFib the whole time.  AFib or atrial fibrillation is a very common

condition that makes the heart beat irregularly. One of the ways that they fix

that is shocking your heart and when it starts back up the hope is that your

heart will restart back into a normal rhythm. 

Linda had this procedure done on January 12 and it was successful!  Later that night when she got home she was in

terrible pain and her daughter and daughter in law (as well as herself) could

just tell that there was something more going on.  Around 10pm that night Linda made the choice to

go back to the hospital. It took quite a few hours to figure out what was

really going on but after a CT scan they were able to diagnose that she had a

small tear in her esophagus. While performing the Afib shock procedure they put

a medical instrument down Linda’s throat and that is how she got the small

tear.  She was transported to a hospital

that could handle  her case and was put into the ICU.


More tests were ran and the Docs determined that they wanted

to put her on a vent and insert some tubes into her chest to drain fluid (that escaped

through the hole). They also placed a feeding tube so she would receive nutrients

while her esophagus healed.


That night Linda was not able to rest well and we later

found out that her IV was not working properly. Once that was found they moved

the IV and she was able to rest more comfortably.  However her heart went back into AFib. They are treating with medication and will try again in the next few days to get her heart out of AFib. 





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