Next Tuesday 10/20 Ginger and I need to be in Wausau Wisconsin so I can have another TEE and Cardiac Catherizaton. The pressure in my heart has increase very rapidly in the last 2 years and the Heart doc says open heart surgery is almost guaranteed in the next 30 days to replaced my aorta. I have never had symptoms of ha bad heart but primarily in the last 6 or so months things have gotten a lot worse. I have chest pains if I walk up the stairs to go to bed and need a nitro for the pain to go away. I haven't been able to walk out to the mail box without needing a nitro pill. I sincerely hope to have the valvular replacement surgery so I can feel better and more able to finally have Bariatric surgery to help with weight loss. During the next week I'm going to fight to see how much weight I can loose.

Ok I just wanted to let everyone know what was going on.