Longest Survivor

might be you!

by Tracey_E - 2018-01-03 07:48:40

If you do a search for our member Gellia, she's the member here I think has been paced the longest but if I remember correctly she got her first one in the early 70's. She had one of the first dual  lead devices. I'm sorry to hear you have a terminal illness. Stay strong, you're obviously a fighter. 

RISKYWALKER.............................

by Tattoo Man1 - 2018-01-03 16:55:57

................Congratulations for being such a long term member..!!....this site has had SO Many fantastic people as Members.....SO HI...hello Members..letsmake a list of Fantastic Members...

I will start with   Electric Frank...........

TMUK

Hope

by mckate - 2018-01-04 15:48:47

This gives me hope for a long life! I'm 31yo going on 10 years paced. Does anyone know the prognosis of someone depenedent on a pacemaker? I suppose it depends on the disease, but anyone know any research?

Congrats on all the years. Sorry to hear you are terminal.. but we ultimately all are as humans, well cyborgs. ;)

To mckate

by Gotrhythm - 2018-01-04 19:23:50

According to something I read several years ago when I typed "life expectancy with a pacemaker" into my browser, the life expectancy of someone with a pacemaker is about the same as someone who doesn't need one.

Wish I could cite the precise article.

A nomination

by IAN MC - 2018-01-05 13:11:49

I would put Tracey in the hall of fame . She always talks sense and often has a go at answering the tricky posts.   (  I do worry though about her obsession of keeping up with her daughters in life's athletic challenges ! )

Ian

Ian  

Hall of Fame....

by Tattoo Man1 - 2018-01-05 17:58:02

IAN MC..totally with you for nominating Tracey...So..

DONR

Pacergirl

Sue uk

Ronaldo

Clockman1

Tick Tock

Loupy Lou

Fluzy Suzy

Snitch / Inga

Blue / Billie..RIP

AND....only IAN MC, Blake will remember this one.....

Loominator...the Baddess Ever !!

TMUK...

mckate

by Tracey_E - 2018-01-09 10:02:27

Every cardiologist I've had has told me that this will not affect my life expectancy. After my annual check last year my ep said he predicts my joints will give out before my heart. Or, as Ian so astutely points out, more likely keeping up with one of my children will be what does me in. As long as I can, I will, but jeez, they both seem to get a little crazier every year. I have no idea where they got that from. Weird. 

TatMan, that's quite the A-list there. We should have a party.