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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.
 
#54 ·
Good luck. From what I know from a close friend who had the same procedure, it's not a real big deal. She's had one for a bunch of years now, and she still runs about 12 miles per week, so it won't keep you from the shop, I'm sure. -SST
 
#58 ·
My surgery is scheduled for Dover Delaware. And I'll be here keeping everyone in line. Except maybe Odie. I think he's a free wheeler and no one can point the direction that he should go.
 
#61 ·
Karson, I can tell you that we all will be thinking about you tomorrow and that I wish you and your family nothing but the best. I will be praying for a swift recovery and hope that you get back into your normal routine as soon as you are able.

Keep us posted on your progress following the surgery. If you have to give up welding and heavy lifting at least you can still keep your fingers moving over the keyboard.
 
#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??