[Coco] OT: pacemaker

[James C. Hrubik]

Gene, I thoroughly understand the pain.  Mine was put in in 2015, left side just below the clavicle, and it still feels odd.  Did they use twilight anesthesia, and could you feel the doc carving away when he was inserting it?  I sure did.  Can’t wear a shoulder harness because it cuts into the pacemaker.  AND - if you get 10 years, that’s a good battery.  I’m going to be evaluated in a month or so to see whether or not mine has to be replaced.  They had it set too high for 2 years and it not only affected my aim (jitters) but ran down the battery faster.  So go slow but as far as you want.  Wonder if a CoCo-on-a-chip would have done a better job <G> - (see, now on-topic)!


On Jan 10, 2019, at 3:17 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:

> On another front, I found myself with a slowing pulse, down in the 30's 
> Sunday, so I now have a sore chest where a pacemaker was inserted. I 
> asked the doc before he put it in if he could get another 25,000 miles 
> out of this abused old carcass, he grinning reply was that depended on 
> how far and fast I drove in the next 10 years, which is the life of its 
> battery. :)

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