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by DMJ - 2018-01-18 15:05:50

I have gotten comments I haven't liked also, yet for the most part I find people helpful.  You can remain on the site and get a lot of information without posting.  We all should remember, "No question is a dumb question".  I hope your husband can adjust well to his pacemaker and all goes well.  It is a easy surgery for most.

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by Citadel_74 - 2018-01-18 15:32:56

I also noticed the rude comments by Robin1 on your earlier post.

Its not the first time Robin1 has attacked someone. 

Please do not leave this site because of one individual who is very offensive.

Almost everyone here wants to help and believe me when i needed a device a lot of the comments here allowed me to be prepared for what turned out extremely well.

I wish your husband well, please feel free to contact me with any questions. There are no stupid questions.

Thanks Jon.

I really hope you don't leave

by Theknotguy - 2018-01-19 18:20:30

I really hope you don't leave.  One of the problems with an open forum is that anyone can chime in.  And that means sometimes people aren't as nice because they aren't talking face-to-face.  

I had some people who were pretty rough with me and, like you, I considered dropping off the forum.  However there is so much information here that I came back and did a lot of reading of current and past posts.  Overall I feel this forum has helped me to the point of where it cut my recovery problems by at least two years.  Also, in all fairness, I come across as being too rough sometimes too and work very hard not to offend people.  

I'd be dead without my pacemaker and I know how scared people can be when they first receive theirs. It really helps to talk with someone who has been there and done that.  The help I did receive from the forum help me to adjust more quickly than I would have otherwise.  

I sincerely hope everything else is going well for your husband. 

I too hope you don't leave

by Gotrhythm - 2018-01-20 17:15:20

Once, I really offended someone with my reply to her post. I hadn't meant to seem insensitive. I only said what seemed logical to me, but she interpreted it as making fun of her--something I would never do. I was so upset, and afraid of acidentally saying the wrong thing, I wouldn't reply to anyone for months after. 

You are in a hard place, and perahps feeling very vulnerable. I think the time leading up to getting a pacemaker is the scarriest. You try so hard to think of everything so you'll be prepared, but you really can't imagine what it will be like. 

Your question about electrical beds is not unusual, it's asked here frequently, and yet you hadn't gotten any real reassureance from medical people.The doctor told me the pacemaker wouldn't help palpitations. That didn't make any sense to me, but nobody could tell me why, or why, even with a pacemaker set at 65, my pulse oxymeter would suddently show a heartrate of 34. Only from my friends at Pacemaker Club did I finally get answers that made sense to me. And allowed me to stop worrying about it.

I would hate to see you cut yourself off from a wealth of support because only one reply out of four was found to be less than helpful.

Wishing you and hubby all the best.

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by Tracey_E - 2018-01-21 13:44:05

Between travel and computer problems I've only been on intermittently the last few weeks and that will likely be the case for at least the next few weeks. I did not see the comment in question before it was deleted. If you see something questionable and a moderator hasn't stepped in, please private message me or Blake (username Admin). I will see that faster than a regular post. 

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