OT: Giving in

With an 85 inch a wireless keyboard and mouse, you can hang in your Lazy boy across your 24 foot living room. ;)

I have always had a difference in my eyes, far sighted in the left, near in the right. So glasses are a extension of me, the left is now

Did you really mean to type deck? ;-)

Update: No freezing rain on the way in, Monday morning. Didn't start until 8-9:00. I'm OK, though majorly hung over today (I'd forgotten what that felt like). I didn't have to worry about waiting the few hours waiting for the vein to close. I was out the entire time (plus an hour). I woke up in a hospital room, so it didn't take long to figure out that they were keeping me overnight (so missed the game traffic, too). I'll take the two little wins.

Well, you could go down the "I'm old and "I'm rich. I can do anything!", road.

My arms aren't long enough for the touch screen. ;-)

See? Told ya! ;-)

Keep us updated.

Gotta keep the lawn mowed.

Ya, you did. ;-) That makes 2 and 2 overnighters. The others they warned us to take an overnight bag.

Thanks. The procedure didn't work (the doc said it was likely), so I'm back were I started. Not sure where to go from here.

Best of luck to you. One of my childhood friends (met nearly 50 years ago! ) has that same procedure about every 18 months for about 6 years. It is t raumatic (I can't imagine)even though they tell him they do it all the time . Eventually, they got him back in time.

However, hard head wouldn't follow the doctor's advice. He wouldn't exercis e, wouldn't lose weight, and wouldn't eat healthy foods. Now he has a pace maker. Worse, his cardiologist used to be my Mom's. He told me that if my boy had followed his advice for the last few years he probably wouldn't ha ve needed but a couple "restarts" and the other problems could have been ma naged with meds.

Like I said, good luck! Follow the Dr.'s orders (unlike my boneheaded frie nd) and hopefully all will be well soon.

Robert

Thanks. The doc didn't really expect this to work this time. He said he'd try again as long as I understood that it was a long-shot. It's not the classical A-Fib, rather A-Flutter on the opposite side (left) side, likely caused by the MAZE procedure[*] I had three years ago.

I've lost a lot of weight and walk 10-15 miles a day (6-7 on a treadmill). The problem with the meds is that they lower my pulse to a dangerous point. Even today I was down around 42 for a while.

They did a cardioversion ("restart") so I'm back in rhythm right now but he doesn't expect it to stay in rhythm long. The next step is a pacemaker. They can either just use a pacemaker to raise the "floor" rate and put me back on the anti-arrhythmic drugs (forever) or go in and kill the AV node (the tissue that conducts the pacing pulse from the atria to the ventricles) and replace it with a 2-wire pacemaker. No going back from that one.

Thanks! (to everyone) I'm trying but I've been going down this road

Been thinking about a 60 inch deck actually.

Wow! I guess you don't have to worry about keeping the lawn trimmed.

It is 3 hours with a 50 inch deck, so trimming is optional.

INTERESTING link. Thanks for that. Sounds like you are very well versed in what is going on... guess I am too used to my hard headed buddy.

On the bright side for him, when they arrived at the end of less invasive procedures and he had his pacemaker installed, it changed his life. He went back to work, has a lot more energy and feels better all day long.

Once more, good luck!

Robert

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She was heard to say "Ouch!"

I try to educate myself on what they're about to do to me. ;-) I told the heart surgeon, no I don't want to know the details of what you're going to cut but I want to know _everything_ about what I can expect, and alternatives (though he's the one who sold me on the MAZE procedure).

I think I'm coming to that conclusion, too, but I have to do more talking with the "electrician" [*]

Thanks again.