Near Death Experience
On May 3rd, I received a bi-ventricular ICD. Â It’s a pacemaker, intended to help my heart chambers beat in sync and in the correct order. Â This device also has an extra wire that, in the event that my heart goes wacky, it will use electro-shock therapy to get me back into rhythm. Â It will try this a couple times if it seems reasonable. Â Or/then it will move directly into full-fledged defibrillation. Â This is the kind of jolt that the paddles give a person after the doctor rubs them together and yells “CLEAR!” Â This device was implanted because of the LBBB I developed after my septal myectomy. So aside from some adjustments that needed to be made, I was beginning to
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