No earth shattering news

Saw the cardiologist this morning and he did a more thorough analysis of the family history, and any other symptoms I've had.

The specialist in Brissie hasn't sent back my scans yet, so he redid the echocardiogram, and has sent the video from that as well as the copies of the scans to another specialist in Sydney at the RPA.

He also gave us (Andrew came with me) a better of idea of what's going on by using some nice little diagrams! Basically they think the problem could be with the fibrillin (connective tissue) in the aorta (specifically in the Sinus of Valsalva if that means anything to anyone...). This is the bit in my heart that is quite "prominent".

So there's a test at the RPA they do at the Marfan's clinic that can check to see if the fibrillin gene is defective. Once the guy at the RPA gets the scans, he'll decide whether I need to go to Sydney for tests, or if they can just take blood or something from here and send it to Sydney.

I mentioned that I'm still hoping to do the 12 hour endurance ride in 4 1/2 weeks, and I'm going stir crazy not training, so he said he'd try to move as fast as he can. I'm pretty sure this is because he's worried I might be putting too much strain on my heart rather than him being concerned about my sporting goals, but you know... whatever works. :-)