Thank You

Hello Folks,

Thank all of you that commented and offered encouragement or advice in reply to my recent posting. I shall be eternally grateful. I am looking at my options and unless an unexpected problem jumps up I will be making drastic changes in my care so far as my pacemaker is concerned.

I will continue to read the postings here because to tell the absolute truth, I have learned much more here than I have from all of the people I have dealt with regarding my pacemaker at the Pacemaker Clinic at Scott & White. I'll not try to say that is because they don't know as much as you people as a whole, or if they don't think it is necessary that I know anymore than they have told me about my pacemaker.

On the other hand, I guess I should thank them for their failure to tell me all I know I needed to know because that failure has forced me to learn from other sources. One of those main sources has been reading the questions posted here and then my searching for answers to some of those questions. Many times I have been able to relate to my own situation a question or answer to that question by others, or information I have been able to find while looking for an answer.

So again, thank all of you and I shall continue to read postings and occasionally put in my nickles worth.

Smitty

2 Comments

you do say it like it is smitty

by jessie - 2008-09-26 11:09:27

it is like that here too. they don't tell you much unless you ask. i am quite dependant and i had to ask percentages in ventricles and atrium to decide if i was or not. my pacemaker has a life of another eight years. i hope that is true. i can only at this point assume they know what they are saying. if problems arise i will respond. thank you for all your friendly advice and your sense of humour and interest. your p.m. friend jessie

Good luck

by ElectricFrank - 2008-09-27 01:09:26

I'm glad to hear you are evaluating your options and taking control of the situation. For me this is key to feeling good about myself. I would rather make my own decision and risk being wrong than blindly following some doctors orders and risk his being wrong. At least it is my mistake!

One thing I've come to realize is that the medical community operates on statistics. Their knowledge is based on an average of a large number of patients. They don't have or take the time to discover where each of us lie on the bell curve. On the other hand I have the time to really discover the details of my own body, but I don't have the time or knowledge to understand the whole range of problems others have. Ideally, if the doc would be willing to work with me as a partner we could have the best of both worlds, but that is rare. So I just have to take charge of the situation.

Then of course there are just the incompetent docs and incompetent patients. That's another story.

best,

frank

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