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Sounds great OCU!

I've been playing that game for fourteen years.
I was lucky. I was discovered at 56. At that age they tend to be more aggressive.

They figured I was dead so they gave me a pacemaker and defibrillator, two bypasses and two heart valves which you can hear clicking if you come close.

I am on my fourth pacemaker and defibrillator as they tend to come up with new technology continuously so when they give you a new battery they give you the latest little computer to save your life.

I don't understand why they didn't give you a defib/pacemaker as they fit inside the same case.

The pacemaker also has a memory so when you connect to the home unit or go in for the arrhythmia exams they will tell you what the device has done for you. It's a weird feeling to be told that the little thing works and that it kept you alive.

When the pacemaker kicks in you will not feel it or know it. It happens in a fraction of a second. Really quite incredible.

The defibrillator goes off and it blows you across the damn room, and if it doesn't work it will go off every three seconds until it is happy you are not dead.

It sounds as if your surgeons and cardiologists spent some time explaining things to you. The incredible ability of the heart to repair and compensate for placement of the electrodes is unbelievable.

You are definitely good to go.
I would advise you to notify the security people at the airport before you go through the metal detector.
They love checking pacemakers out. The metal detector of course has no effect on the device.


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Re: Well, I woke-up on the right side of the sheet...
By: oldCADuser
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Tue, 07 Feb 17 6:14 AM
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An update.

I just had my first follow-up with the doctors at Cedars-Sinai after my surgery. Today it was with the Electrophysiologist, the doctor who implanted the pacemaker. Everything was OK, in fact it was better than OK.

It seems that the 'conductivity' of the cardiac nerve, which was blocked during the heart-valve replacement procedure, has returned to near normal and so the doctor adjusted my pacemaker so that it's now in basically a sort of 'standby' mode where my own 'pacer' is now doing all the work and the pacemaker is there as a backup in case the nerve starts to fail again. He said that this happens some times and that it's a good thing, but I'll still need to be seen every six months for a 'tune-up'. Of course, once I get the home monitor set-up (they'll be sending it me in a couple of weeks), this will be the primary means for monitoring my daily progress.

Anyway, I have to see the surgeon who did the heart-valve replacement procedure next Tuesday for my 30 (actually 29) day surgical follow-up, which means another 100 mile round-trip through L.A. traffic (it took us 2 1/2 hours to get up there today through the Monday-morning traffic and another rainstorm). I'll be glad when I'll only need to see my own cardiologist, whose office is 15 minutes from our house.


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