Leads

Hi All,

My son who has a pacemaker 20mths now is quite active and running and playing alot enjoying life.Just recently he fell down once on his his chest while running.Can this affect hid leads in anyway?

Appreciate your response..

3 Comments

Hi NATO..........

by Tattoo Man - 2014-01-08 01:01:22

.............knotguy makes good sense here...its understandable that you are worried but once these things are bedded in it takes a lot to do them any damage.

I myself fell heavily a while back while running off-road. My instinct was to protect my PM with my left arm.

Down I went with a real thump...my 'protecting arm' hit the deck first and cracked one of my ribs..

My pride, however was a little dented !

Tattoo Man

You're more scared than he is

by Theknotguy - 2014-01-08 01:01:34

I just gave a reply to another parent about EMF fields. You said your son had his pacemaker for 20 months which is past the 90 day period. 99.999% of the things your son will do will scare you to death and not hurt him. So it's more dangerous for you than him.

If you look around this site you'll find people with PM's who are arc welding, sky diving, scuba diving, swimming, running in marathons, and on and on. All of these things have warnings not to be around PM's not to use, not to do, etc. One guy was on the forum yesterday who had been working with sintering furnaces - a pretty high electromagnetic field with no problems.

The new PM's are pretty well shielded. So there's very little that will affect them. And, even if it does, the PM just goes into test mode. It doesn't stop working so your not going to see your son keel over when the PM goes into the test mode. He'll probably notice it, but he won't die.

For your son, after the first 90 days, probably the only thing he can't do is contact sports. Everything else is pretty wide open for him.

If he does something that either hits the PM or does something to the leads, it will hurt enough for him to tell you. And even if he does damage the leads, you'll get enough warning to have them attended to. He just won't drop over dead unless something else was going on.

Right now life expectancy for your son is about 100 years. He's got a lot of living to do. Let the kid go out an enjoy it. Actually as he starts to feel better he'll be back to scaring you to death. So as I said, it's more dangerous for you than him. Besides, it's fun to watch him give the doctors gray hair. That's what they get paid to do.

Grit your teeth, smile, and encourage him to live life. Besides if he's got a PM you've seen the other side. I'd much rather have my son living life and being happy instead of being paralyzed with fear.

It's a bright future. Go live it!

Theknotguy

he's fine

by Tracey_E - 2014-01-09 01:01:19

I know it's hard but you don't have to worry about every little thing with him. His problem has been fixed. Keep an eye on him, of course, but the best thing for him is let him be a normal little boy.

A few weeks ago one of my dogs tripped me at a full run trying to get past me to go outside. I was about to go head first into the sharp corner of the doorway. I put my hand out to stop the fall, my chest hit my fist exactly where the pm and wires are. I had a fist-shaped bruise for two weeks right on top of all the hardware, could not have lined it up more perfectly if I'd tried. My leads and pm are fine. The pm is titanium. The leads are soft and flexible, meant to move with us. Our skin is the only vulnerable part. We bruise, the pm just paces along.

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