Detached lead??

Since yesterday, I feel pain just above the breasts, in the middle-left part of my chest. It's a weird feeling, a bit like the one you feel in your troath when you have a really bad cold. But I do not have a cold and feel the pain as mentioned above.

Could it be that the lead of my ICD has moved? (I got my defib on January 12th, not even a month ago.)

Thanks for you comments.

6 Comments

LEAD QUESTION

by pete - 2012-02-09 01:02:09

Very unlikely to be a detached lead. But go and see your doctor.

WOW!

by donr - 2012-02-09 03:02:06

The same time this post came up, your latest photo showed up in my right margin.

I owe you a humble, public apology. The location of your ICD is terrible. The first two photos did no justice to its location or size - the swelling masked it all.

I see why you are concerned about it & the effect on playing your cello. It's almost in your armpit & obviously an impediment to free motion of your arm. I certainly hope it improves & is not as bad as it looks.

You should not hurt in the location you described. Unless the surgeon took the circuitous route from the ICD to the vein everything should be higher & further left of center. This calls for a call/visit to the surgeon who did the job.

Don

Told you!

by cendmat - 2012-02-11 02:02:30

Hi Don,

I was offered yesterday to see the 'electrician' but since it wasn't hurting anymore, I told them that I'd check my symptoms closely and would call them if the pain would come back.

You see, I told you; the ICD's location is really high. I still haven't found the courage to play cello. But I'm gaining more mobility/flexibility each day so I guess that besides looking really awfull, it won't be that bad after all.

I recently took a RCR class and the woman giving it works at the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Quebec and asked me if I would like to be a spokesperson for them. I said yes! I'm happy; a journalist from a well known and 'big' newspaper is coming to interview me Monday to write an article about young women surviving cardiac problems and I should also do an interview over the radio on Thursday.

So that's about it.

Have a great weekend

Your...

by donr - 2012-02-11 10:02:18

...cello misses you! It feels abandoned, stuck in a corner, probably trapped in its case; dark & lonely.

You really should take it out & say "Hello" (or whatever French speakers say as an equivalent). PLS don't become a Billy Filer because of this. You won't know till you try.

Glad you are recovering well - other than the pain you had.


Don
What is an RCR Class?

Cend: Had to Chuckle...

by donr - 2012-02-12 02:02:48

...A lifetime ago, back when you were wearing a pinafore & Maryjanes, I took a bunch of American Boy Scouts to a National Jamboree in Thailand.

While there, we met a Australian who was a Catholic Priest & invited him to dinner w/ us in our campsite. Father Tony was his name. Well, we chatted quite a bit, him telling us stories about what it was like living as a caucasian in Thailand. The boys were enthralled by him.

Then he told us of a well-to-do family living there that had a rather large collection of sterling silver dinnerware. They also had a staff of several locals as servants. After several years, for some reason they chanced to open the chest the silver was stored in & discovered that most of it had been "...stolen & replaced by half a hundred weight of bricks..." We collectively became unhinged w/ laughter, having never heard such an expression before.

Terrible as this sounds, I can just visualize you opening the case (which must be a hard, sturdy one, not the canvas type) & staring at a small pile of bricks in the bottom. Thinking of Father Tony's story.

When you do open it, please tell it that there is some madman Yank down there that is really worried about it.

Don

Excuse my French

by cendmat - 2012-02-12 09:02:16

RCR = CPR training

My schedule is fully booked up until Friday but I'll try to open my cello case soon, just to make sure that my landlords who painted my bathroom when I was away (convalescence at my mom's place) didn't take it and replace it with a couple of bricks.

Cend

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