So sorry to hear, Gene, but glad you got care in time. Now that you have the pacemaker, no playing with induction heaters! Many years ago I worked for an optical instrument company that used induction brazing to fabricate telescope tubes. The 80 year old patriarch of the company with a recently installed pacemaker happened to be standing near just as the heater was turned on and almost instantly fell to the floor. Fortunately, he survived and went on for another 10 years, never missing a day of work. Just take care of yourself, this forum wouldn't be the same without you!
On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 11:56 AM Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > 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 > -- > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- "Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist." -Kenneth Boulding, economist Corporations are NOT people and money is NOT speech! _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
