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Hello Everyone
It's so hard to believe year ago today I was given a better life CRT
I have given it a name "Albert" after my grandfather who was given pacemaker in the early 1960's that time wires were outside the body I have seen pictures , how times have changed..
Has anyone else given there pacemaker a name😄.
Now that it's winter in Calgary Canada and - 30 with windchill as anyone experience any problems being outside...
Take care everyone

4 Comments

Cold air

by Theknotguy - 2014-11-29 02:11:15

I got my PM last October, just in time for the cold weather to set in. I'm in the midwest USA and we get the Canadian Clippers - i.e. very cold air coming over the North Pole, into Canada and down to us.

Cardiac nurses warned me about going outside and breathing the cold air. Initial response of the body is to constrict, tighten the lungs, blood vessels, and arteries. So if you have plaque in the arteries, previous problems that require stents, you'll want to try to warm the air you breath.

Fortunately I didn't have "plumbing" problems and kept up my walking regimen throughout the winter. Since the dogs are all black and have trouble in the hot summer sun, they really enjoyed the cold weather walks.

I haven't named my PM even though I've become rather fond of it. (After all, it keeps me alive.) Spent too much time around machinery to anthropomorphize it.

Hope things continue to go well for you.

My Pacemaker Has No Name

by Shaun - 2014-11-29 06:11:58

..... but I do feel a deep sense of gratitude towards those early pacemaker recipients whose suffering enabled the technology to developed to what it is today such that I and many others like me may enjoy a quality of life which would othewise not be possible. One such pacemaker recipient is my wife's grandmother Amparo - thank you.

Names

by Nick.k(uk) - 2014-12-01 05:12:35

Less than 3 weeks since implant and family discussions re names ongoing.

Peter Pacemaker seems to be leading the race so far.

I'm also not greatly in favour of anthropomorphising but early on, having been previously non symptomatic, I started to resent this intrusion so a name may have helped my growing acceptance of the changes.

I realised some time after coming up with the name that Peter is also the name of my oldest friend who I see all to rarely but it remains comforting to know he is still around, so it kind of fits.

Good luck all
Nick (uk)

In Favour

by Zebragal - 2014-12-01 07:12:48

I also have been thinking of naming my Pacemaker...just need to come up with the right name!

I decided to name it for similar reasons to Nick.k(uk)... My pacemaker was a complete surprise following OHS to rebuild the Engine.

I've named my OHS scar already.....she's Gemma after a main character on Sons of Anarchy. Just gotta come up with the right name for my friend in my shoulder!

Happy name hunting!

Zebragal

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