Thank you for your words of encouragement. I think she wants to go ahead with the carotid US. Her PCP is on vacation and she doesn't want to discuss this with anyone else. She has a wonderful home health nurse and the retirement home that she lives in just loves her dearly. So she will be taken care of when she gets out of the hospital.

I guess part of the problem is me. I was a cardiac nurse and I will want to be watching the telemetry, etc. I know what sick sinus syndrome is and what it can do.