On Sunday 06 January 2019 12:03:10 Kenneth Lerman wrote:

Back on the list Kenneth, thank you.

> Gene,
>
> You can tell me that it's none of my business, but having your heart
> rate decrease by a factor of two can be a sign of serious cardiac
> problems. (I've been a volunteer EMT in Newtown, CT for over twenty
> years.)

This is gradual, spread over the last 5 years or so.

> Please, get thee to a Dr. ASAP. Don't neglect it. Particularly if you
> are more out of breath than usual.

Thats the problem, I am not noticeably out of breath.

> I suggest that you don't drive yourself. DIAL 911.
>
> I know, you probably can't leave Dee alone. But if you neglect your
> own health, you may just leave her permanently.

A definite possibility. One of those little finger grabbers says 97%, and 
39 right now. 97 is just a hair low, but pr has settled back to 38 in 
the couple minutes I've been sitting here.  All the doc could say just 
10 days ago was that there was a slight murmur of a valve but nothing to 
worry about. He had heard it before, a year or so back.
 
> (It will be a sad day for me when "ghesk...@shentel.net" goes silent.)

I'm realistic enough to know it will happen, sometime. Dee was still 
sleeping the last time I looked while making morning coffee. And that 
first cup has me at 37. And I didn't send this, got up hung a note that 
said I was headed for the ER on her potty chair. Then drove myself to 
the ER...  That was Sunday.

Now its Thursday and, I'm back from the body shop, typeing a little 
slower, and sorer and with a foreign object in my chest. A pacemaker. So 
you haven't gotten rid of me yet. :) Mentally I think I'm OK, but I'm 
under orders to not drive for about a week because it slows reflexes 
among other things. I got a sore throat while in the OR but they didn't 
intubate me so they cultured a tonsil swab and gave me the first dose of 
levoflaxen yesterday, and a script for 7 more, pills. That stuff 
dissolves the tendons, so no heavy lifting for the next 15 days, till it 
wears off. No warfarin till at least a week, and stop the lisonopril.

Like I told the doc when he walked in as I was trying to clean lunch out 
of my teeth with an Arkansas toothpick, can you get another 25,000 miles 
out of me?  Sure he says, the battery is good for 10 years.

Anyway, thats my story and I'm sticking to it.

I hope everyone is alive and well while I was gone.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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