Guest guest Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 Not a complaint... just a status report. Friday the 13th was not the calm day I had hoped. Experienced my 8th life saving 700 volt jolt of therapy... the first for device#4... first built-in EMS crew for me from Saint Jude. I know I do not have much to whine about when so many of you have had so much more... just a little shocking dose of reality. I think the record belongs to Stacie in Indianapolis who joined us when she was 12... eleven years ago. During that period she has experienced more than 2000... that's two thousand zaps in 11 years ~ at least one every other day! All three of my previous implants were Guidant... and I got one wake up call from #3... not quite a year ago on September 5th while mowing. Also... only got the Big Zap once from implant #2 more than four years earlier on March 23rd of 2002... with a minute-32 left in the Indiana vs Kent State NCAA basketball tournament! Device One yanked me back from death's door - all appropriately - five times from an implant that only lasted 3.5 years. OK... I know someone will be asking: "What were you doing when you got the "intervention" this time?" So... let me copy what I told a friend in an email earlier today, making a red faced admission: While chatting with one of the most (breathtakingly) attractive women I have met in recent decades about expanding her medical writing talents to include on camera work for vodcasting... without feeling dizzy or any other early warning - BAM! I saw a bright blue flash of light and the unmistakable feeling of a baseball bat slamming into my chest and back at the same time. Yep... I got the full blown 700-volt course correction right there in a parking lot, and slowly melted to the ground. Sadly, I was never unconscious so I never had the benefit of CPR or M2M from my pretty acquaintance. So I explained what she had just seen and that I should go to the ER, just to make sure my electrical circuits were restored to working order. Seems the high voltage dose of therapy WAS appropriate... no hint that it was anything more than an isolated run of V-tach/V-Fib. The moral of this story... when less than 13 months before hitting 60... avoid banter with women you might describe as "breathtakingly beautiful." It just might prove to be life and health endangeringly true! = Three wise A-- men! hehehehe~Duff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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