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Tomorrow I enter the Bionic Generation

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#1 · (Edited by Moderator)
Tomorrow 5-27-2009 I enter the bionic, electric generation.

I'm going in for a pacemaker implant. My heart rate fluctiates between 40 and 150 and in order to bring the upper range down through medication they need to put a floor on the lower rate. I also have had the heart pause for 2.4 sec between beats. That's passout time and I would hate to be leaning over a table saw and that were to happen.

So the pacemaker will be set for 60 beats per minute as the minimum and then they will try to bring the upper range down.

I'm not suppose to drive for 3 weeks and to lift anything heavy for 4 weeks, and the left arm over my head for about the same time.

The Dr said it's not the driving that causes problems, it's the idiots that drive and pull out in front of you and you swerve to miss them.

The pacemaker is attached to a wire and the wire to a screw that is screwed into the mussle wall of the heart. The screw will have tissue grow over it and thats the 3-4 weeks time. hey don't want the screw to come out.

We all know what happens when screws get loose.

I don't want anyone telling me that I've got a loose screw.

So I'll see you on the other side.
 
#86 ·
Karson,

I really don't know you very well but I send my best wishes for you that you procedure went smoothly and your recovery is swift and full. Please heed the Drs warnings and ease back into your projects… I missed toy night or two now.. is much better then rushing it and cause more missed toy nights later…. or even the loss of you at toy nights altogether… please becarefull. You seem from what I have read to be a good soul and this world needs as many folks like you as we can get and as long as we can have ya….....

Wow I can be morose at times…. sorry….. please get well soon you are in my thoughts.
 
#67 ·
Best wishes for a speedy recovery, you'll be in my prayers! I know what the doc means about the idiots on the road. I almost got me one Sat. We were taking our tractor down to the Tree Farm. I was towing the trailer with my Ford F-250. A car was signaling to make a turn in next lane. An idiot in one of those tiny little plastic SUVs started to slow behind him; at the last possible second, he decided to change into my lane. I couldn't have missed him by more the a foot or two!! These clowns need a basic physics class in drivers taining! 10 tons of steel and iron vs. 65# of plastic and fiberglass, guess who wins??