{"id":223,"date":"2008-07-10T09:31:11","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T16:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/?p=223"},"modified":"2008-07-10T09:48:51","modified_gmt":"2008-07-10T16:48:51","slug":"oh-my-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/10\/oh-my-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, my Heart!"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I met with Dr. Murphy yesterday, he showed me a sketch of my heart anatomy so he could illustrate where the swollen patches are that they identified in the CT scans.\u00a0 I thought it would be fun to show you guys what a crazy-looking little Frankenstein I have.\u00a0 (Click on the image for a larger version.)<\/p>\n

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RA=Right Atrium<\/p>\n

PA=Pulmonary Artery (what’s left of it)<\/p>\n

AO=Aorta<\/p>\n

RV=Diminutive Right Ventricle<\/p>\n

LV=Left Ventricle (really my only one)<\/p>\n

EF=Ejection Fracture (function, basically)<\/p>\n

The arcs on the right of the picture are the patches.\u00a0 The two parallel lines to the left represent the artificial conduit they put in to take over for my right atrium (which, you can see by the black scribbles, they blocked off).\u00a0 The little black scribble in the upper left of the conduit was where the clot was which has now disappeard – yea!\u00a0 Any questions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I met with Dr. Murphy yesterday, he showed me a sketch of my heart anatomy so he could illustrate where the swollen patches are that they identified in the CT scans.\u00a0 I thought it would be fun to show you guys what a crazy-looking little Frankenstein I have.\u00a0 (Click on the image for a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[8,14],"tags":[28,36,136],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8WrW-3B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}