Pacemaker! No, it's not the name of a race horse. It's what I received today just below my left collarbone. After a year of struggling with a very low heart rate and the accompanying fatigue and incapacity, I got one. It is an awesome thing to have a resting heart rate of 60 and know that it will go no lower, and that it will respond to demands for a higher rate without making my chest pound and causing shortness of breath and dizziness. I face a 12 week "take care with the left arm" thing, but after that, I'm good to go! Meanwhile I will be able to walk up the hill from our new house site and not wonder if I will end up in an ambulance! It has been quite a wonderful day! And it snowed today. First one of the season. "Squaw Winter" some call it. Followed, we both hope this year as we try to get the new house under roof, by a very very long and lovely "Indian Summer."Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Pacemaker
Pacemaker! No, it's not the name of a race horse. It's what I received today just below my left collarbone. After a year of struggling with a very low heart rate and the accompanying fatigue and incapacity, I got one. It is an awesome thing to have a resting heart rate of 60 and know that it will go no lower, and that it will respond to demands for a higher rate without making my chest pound and causing shortness of breath and dizziness. I face a 12 week "take care with the left arm" thing, but after that, I'm good to go! Meanwhile I will be able to walk up the hill from our new house site and not wonder if I will end up in an ambulance! It has been quite a wonderful day! And it snowed today. First one of the season. "Squaw Winter" some call it. Followed, we both hope this year as we try to get the new house under roof, by a very very long and lovely "Indian Summer."
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