People not to offend

The pacemaker club with quickie 1 liners, they will censor you.

DO NOT OFFEND THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE:(

The Primary Doctor who writes your prescriptions.
The Pharmacy who fills your prescriptions.
Your spouse who picks up your prescritions.
Your spouse who gives you your prescritions.
The implant representative who checks your implant settings.
The Electrophysiologist who sets the final programming.

JUST KIDDING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is a true story though... I did ask my 3 heart Doctors - 2 questions they said they have never heard in over 30 years of practice. And YES they said both are very real possibilities..... So don't tell anyone it could start a panic...Beware......
# 1. I ask can the implant be pre -programmed. YES, any disgruntled implant representative with access to the programmer could set all of his patients device's to affect their heart when ever he programs it to. Just imagine 1,000 implants stop the heart at 5pm on such and such a day.... I smell a movie deal...The disgruntled implant representative.

#2. Could a radical Doctor implant a plastic explosive pacemaker shaped device with the wire leads that look real if scanned, that either set the bomb off at a pre set heart rate, or better yet a built in altimeter for the flying public...I bet homeland security has not thought of this, and I bet they have not got the ability to detect the metal incased explosive.. I smell another movie deal..Title of Movie....Thump, Thump , Thump, Thump, Boom..
I warned you in an earlier post I see things differently know.
Did that cheer you up :::))) Give you something to think about??

8 Comments

funny?

by jessie - 2008-06-07 01:06:13

my father-in-law's actually blew up in 1974. it was not a funny time. i was very close to him and i was devestated when this ocurred. it happened at my mother and fathers house over dinner. i had just returned to work after being home for a few years with my children. i was at work over the dinner hour and got the call. he was dead before he hit the hospital by ambulance. he immingrated to this country in 1926. he worked in saskatchewan on a farm to earn enough to pay his passage over. no welfare then. he then found hi way from the west to london ontario and then sent the money in 1929 to bring his wife and 2 babies over.he built his own house. he lived there 45 years and never did go back. he loved canada. so yes it did happen as they were not perfected then. take care. enjoy your life jess

Old days........

by auntiesamm - 2008-06-07 06:06:36

Jessie - Yours is a sad tale about the pacemaker. My dad got a PM implanted in about 1974 - he was 62 and still working in the lumber industry. It was a huge, Cordes - probably the only one available back then. He did okay with it. I looked like a giant Yo-Yo under his shirt. There was no way to monitor or program those old PMs. Following a brief hospital stay for related problems he was transferred to a SNF. The 3rd day there he refused his breakfast, rolled over in bed and died. The doctors believe the pacemaker quit working! They actually REMOVED the pacer and gave it to us. That was too weird.............let me tell you it made me so mad. I threw it in the trash and it took me a long time to evere think positively about the doctor. I had not thought about this incident in a long time until this post. I just buried it deep as it was so upsetting to me. Aren't we silly sometimes with the things we can't let go of? Love ya', Jessie

outside the box

by ccmoore - 2008-06-07 10:06:03

I like where your mind is at and your take on the world when there is a PM installed.

You should post some of your stuff in the jokes section, we need some good humor. Where is the last comic standing when we need one?

Keep it coming coryi711.

Charlie

Journal Article

by djahn - 2008-06-07 11:06:00

Because I work at a university I have access to almost every medical journal. Despite not having a medical background, since my PM implant, I just can't help reading every journal article about PMs and ICDs that I can lay my hands on.

No need to plant a plastic explosive in someone...I've found one case where a woman's PM exploded....GULP...

http://www.chestjournal.org/cgi/reprint/91/3/467.pdf

re:journal

by coryi711 - 2008-06-07 12:06:50

LOL, you mean I could blow -up anyway?? Did not know that. OH, well, haven't tried that one yet. I bet that's a bang..................:) just kidding.......

Additional people NOT to offend...

by harley63 - 2008-06-08 03:06:47

could NOT resist climbing up on my soap box on this posting....

DO NOT offend these dedicated members of the healthcare team as well:

Nurse, nursing assistant, therapist, housekeeper, dietary personal, clerical staff or any other very important person who are employed or volunteer at the facilities in which you receive healthcare!

Rah Rah for healthcare professionals everywhere! What are we going to do when there are not enough healthcare staff to take care of the aging baby boomers??

My two cents worth,
Harley63

Movie

by OIMAPRINCESS2477 - 2008-06-08 10:06:16

There is already a movie out there called Dead in a Heartbeat. Where an mans child died from a heart defect and to punish the doctor he built pacemakers with bombs and she unknowingly implanted them in patients. Was a pretty good movie but scared the crap outta me right before I got my pacer.

yes

by jessie - 2008-06-08 12:06:03

yes it was hard for me to deal with. he was only 72 and had worked so hard in canada to raise six children. my husband was the yougest son. our son was six at the time. he missed his grandpa something terrible but grandpa died knowing his youngest son had just bought a house and was doing well. he also died knowing that his son had a supportive wife and two wonderful children. i know it is ahrd but i try to focus on the positive now. it just makes life so much easier love,ya too sharon jess

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