Ha ha techies....I have four computers for my body. How about you?

Including one that is inside my body.

My heart has been through a lot in the past 6 or 7 years.

A heart attack last January.  

Open heart surgery in 2018.

Heart ablation for A-fib

My latest joy came after I noticed that my portable EKG device was displaying A-fib again.  So we contacted my Cardiologist who ordered another heart halter device that I would wear for 10 days.

The results showed that I had "First degree AV block (ICD-426.11) (ICD10-I44.0) Mobitz type 1 second degree Atrioventricular (AV) block (ICD-426.13) (ICD10-I44.1) appears to have symptomatic chronotropic incompetence."

Another easier-to-understand diagnosis would be "pacemaker deficit disorder."

What it means is that my heart beats too slowly because the beat from the upper chamber to the lower chamber doesn't always make it.  This can lead to fatigue, drowsiness, etc.  My heart beats during the day at the pace that it should be beating when I'm asleep.  At times my heart beat is too rapid (tachycardia), and they can't control that with medicine because then it would make my heart beat most of the time far too slow.

So, yesterday was an important day to have Candice here.  Vicky couldn't drive, and I wouldn't be able to drive.  Vicky has a disabled arm from her surgery two days earlier, so simply would not be able to handle anything that came up.  We are so grateful to have Candice here.

From my love, my flower girl, my Vicky.

 

We thought that getting a pacemaker was a nothing-burger.  Just slip a small device under the skin, thread wires to my heart, and done!

And that's sort of what it was.  Seemed to take about 45 minutes.  

It's the recovery we didn't anticipate.  I'm in a ton of pain, and am not allowed to do much with my arm for 4 weeks.  Otherwise, as it was explained to me, I might pull the leads out of my heart muscle and then they would have to start over.  DON'T WANT THAT! 

We finally got out of there.  Got home, where Candice did all of the work that night.  

I now have that little baby computer inside my body.  Also I have new hearing aids as of a couple of months ago that are computers.  And a heart monitor that sits on the dresser and once a day sends signals to my doctor's office if anything about my heartbeat goes awry.

I'm the bionic man.