[Coco] OT: pacemaker

[James C. Hrubik]

Got one of those, too, Gene.  Its a remote monitor.  Every night at 3 AM ET calls home and reports on my status.  Mine doesn’t have a phone line; it has its own built-in cell phone.  At first they sent me 2 units that had phone jacks & cords, but then they sent the cellular unit.  I asked what to do with the corded ones, they said I should just ignore them - Medicare paid for it.  So I have 2 doohickeys that look sort of like hockey pucks sitting here doing nothing.  I wonder if I could hack them to make some kind of modem?    If you have decent cellular service, maybe you should ask for one of the cell types.

Strange that they didn’t tell you about that in the lab.  Or didn’t they bother to calibrate the pacemaker before you went home?

On Jan 11, 2019, at 11:31 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:

> On Friday 11 January 2019 10:42:17 Salvador Garcia via Coco wrote:
> 
>> Gene, did you check with your doctor to make sure that your pacemaker
>> isn't running embedded Windows? We certainly don't want your pacemaker
>> to blue screen, or for you to be stuck at home Tuesday evenings while
>> updates are installed! :-D Salvador
>> 
> Chuckle, laughing hard enough to hurt, rolling on the floor no, that 
> would be too painfull. The thing came with a monitor kit, and absolutely 
> no instructions. I has a socket for a std phone cable and a number to 
> call but the docs are absolutely bereft of any hint at just what the 
> heck its supposed to do. If plugged in. it eventually will do a 
> bluetooth pairing at which point the leds go to a repeat cycle of 
> flashing.  And I'm not about to give it a phone line until they tell me 
> what its all about.
> 
> Thanks for the chuckle Salvador. I'm still grinning.
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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