What not to say to your EP

I could use some help finding a Doctor who specializes in removing a foot from one's mouth..would that be a podiatrist or a dentist???
I researched about my EP study before having it done, the worst it said could happen was death and those odds were 1 in a thousand, So after all the I-V's are in and I'm feeling good my Ep Doctor walks in, and I asked him if I am # 998 or #999, He didn't get it till I explained...I was # 1,000.
Then the foot jumped in my mouth again at my first ICD follow up. He was telling me that only 2 weeks after implant that the pacemaker already had to pace my heart for 12 seconds..and in 3 more seconds I would have got zapped by the defib. " I guess I've got 15 seconds till the zapper works" anyway I stupidly asked, if it were not for him and the cardiologist poking around in my heart in the first place, would I have needed the implant. He just gave me a glare>>>>>>>>
Zombie

5 Comments

Maybe what you need............

by NH - 2008-06-14 01:06:55

Is a "think before you speak Dr." or what as known as a FootInMoutholigist. HA HA

I just couldn't resist responding. Seriously, maybe you could try looking at things in a positive manner. What if the cardiologist and EP had not checked your heart? Where would you be now? It is a blessing that you have an ICD to pick up your heart and keep it beating.

Have a good day and weekend. Again, just joking with you about the Dr. name. Just couldn't resist.

Take care,
NH

zappers, foiled again

by joy1 - 2008-06-14 03:06:34

A sense of humor, if you can cultivate one, is an important commodity for all of us with heart problems. And all of you who have zapping devices have a far more difficult time maintaining that humor, especially, if your one of the lucky ones who gets zapped.

One of the foremost things I have learned here on this site, is there is a tremendous difference in the attitudes of most people, post implant, depending on if they received a PM or ICD. We are a mixed bag; truly a case of apples and oranges.

Keep your humor and if you didn't have some before ,now is the time to develop some because it sure makes living with a heart problem easier; if not for ourselves but for those around us. And as for the doctors, nurses and techs...they can use a laugh or two also.

Joy

Been There

by ghettofibrullous - 2008-06-15 11:06:43

They probably should have sewn my mouth shut while I was under b/c I am "NOT" the model patient. I see joking around (sometimes inappropriately) as my only vice.

For instance, one of the EP's who came into see me looked eerily like O.J Simpson. He was very professional going through his perfunctory explanations of why I'd need the ICD and what I can and can't do blah blah blah and at the very end he said, "now do you have any questions for me?" to which I replied, "um, yeah... do you by chance drive a white bronco??"

A couple days later he was apologizing to me for giving me an erroneous report on my heart MRI (after further evaluation it came back that it wasn't perfect as they originally thought) and I said, "i wouldn't expect anything less, you also claimed the glove didn't fit."

So yeah, not smart at all to be ribbing the guy who's at least friends w/ the guy who's going to be up inside your heart when your wrists are tied down. Not smart at all....

You treated him nice

by ElectricFrank - 2008-06-15 12:06:39

Hey, you were nice to him with a bit of joking around. Now if you really want to get to him:

Q. So if chances are 1 in 1000 that I will die during the EP study, what are my chances of dying if Idon't have it done?

OR

Q. How many of these studies have you done. Then depending on the number you can respond with Oh then you must have had 3 patients die or Oh then it sounds like you are due for one. Maybe I should wait until it happens to someone else!

Finally, the best way to keep from putting your foot in your mouth is to put it in someone else's.

so much for my thoughts for the day!!!!

frank

Myfootinmouth moments....

by harley63 - 2008-06-16 08:06:17

hhmm.... well, I'm very pleased to see that I am not alone in the foot in mouth moments! The spotlight moment for me.. tied to the table in the cath lab.. at 9PM with the staff being called back to the hospital on a bitter cold night in December... I'm asking who all has had supper, who has finished their Christmas shopping and who all had just worked a 12 - 16 hr day! There have been many others one liners.. but I'll spare ya' for now.

We are all human and for the most part healthcare professionals know that.

Take care to all,
Harley63

You know you're wired when...

Your old device becomes a paper weight for your desk.

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