Time for a new battery

Daniel20

Daniel20

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Hello to all my SOS friends. Ten years ago, I was diagnosed with a heart condition called Bradycardia and received a dual lead pacemaker to help my old heart out whenever it got too tired to pump at a minimum rate. The battery finally ran down into the reserve zone and tomorrow April the 7th I go in for a battery replacement where they actually replace the whole pacemaker with a new one. This procedure is routinely done on an outpatient basis, in at 7:30 am and out by noon if everything goes well. I am a man of faith in our Lord and know firsthand the power of prayer and would like to have the prayers of my shipmates, you all, should the Lord so move you in your heart to do so.
Thank you, Daniel
 
Daniel20 said:
Hello to all my SOS friends. Ten years ago, I was diagnosed with a heart condition called Bradycardia and received a dual lead pacemaker to help my old heart out whenever it got too tired to pump at a minimum rate. The battery finally ran down into the reserve zone and tomorrow April the 7th I go in for a battery replacement where they actually replace the whole pacemaker with a new one. This procedure is routinely done on an outpatient basis, in at 7:30 am and out by noon if everything goes well. I am a man of faith in our Lord and know firsthand the power of prayer and would like to have the prayers of my shipmates, you all, should the Lord so move you in your heart to do so.
Thank you, Daniel
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All my wishes for your replacement, Daniel. Hope to see you soon here with new energy.
Regards, Peter
 
We can add you to the list of , " thoughts and prayers" for sure. My Gradmother got her first one in 1969, battery's replaced in 1986 and in 1994 she passed in 2000 she was 100. Thought and prays are on the way. Good luck.
Bobby K
 
Outpatient? Is the pacemaker inside your chest or glued to the outside?

If it’s inside as I suspect, I wonder whether anyone has yet tried recharging by induced current, like an iPhone in its dock.
 
Smithy said:
Outpatient? Is the pacemaker inside your chest or glued to the outside?

If it’s inside as I suspect, I wonder whether anyone has yet tried recharging by induced current, like an iPhone in its dock.
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Its inside Smithy. As I understand it, all options for recharge vs replacement are being researched. Even inertial movement such as self-winding watches have is being looked at to generate a charging current.
 
Smithy said:
Outpatient? Is the pacemaker inside your chest or glued to the outside?

If it’s inside as I suspect, I wonder whether anyone has yet tried recharging by induced current, like an iPhone in its dock.
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You could get a tattoo on your chest reading, “no user-serviceable parts inside.” ROTF

And best wishes for the op. Thumbsup
 
Smithy said:
You could get a tattoo on your chest reading, “no user-serviceable parts inside.”
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A couple years ago one of the leads shorted over to my pectoral muscle, talk about weird feeling having your peck muscle twitch 60 times a minute. They corrected the problem by throwing a magnet hooked to a computer over the area and reprogramed the unit. They can do all sorts of adjustment to it in place.
 
Daniel20 said:
A couple years ago one of the leads shorted over to my pectoral muscle, talk about weird feeling having your peck muscle twitch 60 times a minute. They corrected the problem by throwing a magnet hooked to a computer over the area and reprogramed the unit. They can do all sorts of adjustment to it in place.
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Is your real name Steve Austin? Or are you a terminator?
 
Daniel20 said:
Hello to all my SOS friends. Ten years ago, I was diagnosed with a heart condition called Bradycardia and received a dual lead pacemaker to help my old heart out whenever it got too tired to pump at a minimum rate. The battery finally ran down into the reserve zone and tomorrow April the 7th I go in for a battery replacement where they actually replace the whole pacemaker with a new one. This procedure is routinely done on an outpatient basis, in at 7:30 am and out by noon if everything goes well. I am a man of faith in our Lord and know firsthand the power of prayer and would like to have the prayers of my shipmates, you all, should the Lord so move you in your heart to do so.
Thank you, Daniel
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Best of luck Daniel. By noon tomorrow you will be recharged and ready to go. Cheers Grant
 
As an anesthesiologist, let me reassure you this is a very routine thing. The difficult part of a pacemaker is placing the leads or wires into the correct part of the heart. You already had that done. Replacing the generator is very simple. The area above the pacemaker is anesthetized using some lidocaine and the skin incised right above the generator, The leads are detatched from the pacemaker (a very small allen wrench) The pacemaker generator is taken out a new one is put in and the leads reattached. The generator is checked to make sure things are working the way they should and the pocket sutured back up. The whole procedure will take 15-30 minutes.

That being said, my prayers are with you.

As an old saying goes "The difference between major surgery and minor surgery is that minor surgery happens to someone else!"

Rob
 
Daniel20 said:
Its inside Smithy. As I understand it, all options for recharge vs replacement are being researched. Even inertial movement such as self-winding watches have is being looked at to generate a charging current.
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I can see it now. To 'wind' your pacemaker you have to crawl out of bed and do 100 jumping jacks to start the day.....
 
Rob444 said:
As an anesthesiologist, let me reassure you this is a very routine thing. The difficult part of a pacemaker is placing the leads or wires into the correct part of the heart. You already had that done. Replacing the generator is very simple. The area above the pacemaker is anesthetized using some lidocaine and the skin incised right above the generator, The leads are detatched from the pacemaker (a very small allen wrench) The pacemaker generator is taken out a new one is put in and the leads reattached. The generator is checked to make sure things are working the way they should and the pocket sutured back up. The whole procedure will take 15-30 minutes.

That being said, my prayers are with you.

As an old saying goes "The difference between major surgery and minor surgery is that minor surgery happens to someone else!"

Rob
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Thank you for that explanation, Rob, it is very reassuring.
 
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