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New 10 yr old with pacemaker

My daughter just got a pacemaker put in this morning, she is 10 years old. She fainted Tuesday at home and everything has happened so fast since then, she had a monitor on for 24 hours and they found out her heart keeps stopping. they wanted to wait until Monday to put in a pacemaker but Wed. night her heart stopped for 5.4 seconds and 4 seconds yesterday so...she got her pacemaker put in this morning. She has 2 leads on it. Lets hope for a speedy recovery....

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Happy Holidays!

Thanks to all pacers who have shared with us their stories and opinions. Have you all a great new year, maybe a better one.!!!!!!!!!
Anette

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Holiday Greetings

To all co-pacers,
Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Healthy New Year!
Thank you all for your comments to my posts. Its just nice knowing your out there. God Bless you all and your families as well.Bless our cardiologists and our pacemakers...without them we wouldn't be here to welcome 2009!

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MERRY CHRISTMAS

hi turbo,bionic man , sculptor, blake and anyone else who is or isn't around. i hope fora very merry christmas and a better 2009 in the usa and canada and globally. take care everyone . look after yourself as best you can. jessie

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Christmas Eve!

Hey!!!!!!!! Yesterday, I read a quote by Maya Angelou: "I've learned that I can have pains, but I don't have to be one." I am going to adapt this into my life, considering the past few months. Even my friends have said, "I hope you feel better Sydney, because, no offense, you can be...kind of a ****." Those were their words, not mine! Anyway, I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas if I'm not here before tomorrow. It's Christmas Eve, and it just seems like 4th of July just passed! So Happy Christm...

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Merry Christmas

To Blake, and to all my friends in the Pacemaker Club, may I wish a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. My hope for you all is that you may be safe and well. Enjoy the fun!

Kind wishes, and in appreciation of much support and friendship so generously offered by you all, I send much love. Sheila

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Letter to Medicare....

I first would like to send the warmest of the Season's Greetings to everyone here at the PaceMaker Club!

I have just finished reading the "Letter to Medicare" listed under "Latest News", to the right. My goodness, what a very well written letter we have here. I would like to encourage everyone to read it, as it could effect you directly or someone you know. The attached stories of our PacerMaker friends really sends the message that we need help with the infections!

Bravo...

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MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL

Wishing all my "supercharged" friends a great Christmas from Tasmania followed by a good 2009.
Tenanabit. (ICD) equipped.

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Merry Christmas and A Happy and Healthy New Year

I wish to wish all good holidays! And thank all for being here and supporting me and befriending me in my last 4 months with all my health problems. I can never repay any of you for your help; Except to say " THANK YOU, YOU ARE THE BEST!!!!!!!"
DAVE

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Merry X-mas and thanks a lot for beeing here :-)

I wish all of you a very Merry Christmas with a lot of love and just the best to the New Year - a lot of health, love, luck etc.

And I would like to thank you all that you are here, because I can tell you that you have helped me really a lot! I have my pacemaker for 5 months now and I am really glad that I know that I am not here alone... you know how I mean it. I am from the Czech Republic and I dont know anybody here with the PM in the similar age as I am so its nice to know that t...

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Happy Holidays

To all my Pacemaker Club Buddies, I wish each of you and your loved ones a safe, healthy and Happy Holiday Season.

And I'll see you down the road in a few days.

Smitty

Merry Christmas and Happy New year CathyrinB. We miss you.

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paceguard

Check out this new website. It is a protective guard to allow people who want to be active/sports and want protection. www.paceguard.com They can be reached at paceguard@gmail.com

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Merry Christmas

Hi everyone!! I have not posted on here for a while but have been reading all of your messages on here daily.
Just wanna thank everyone for all of there support this 1st year of mine with my pm.(especially Smitty, Uvagershwin and gentlben4u) I have had it for just over 8 months now and the past few have felt very well, possibly better than i did before i even knew i needed one.

I hope you all have a very merry christmas.

See you all in the new year.
Take care, Lou...

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chat again!

I shall be in chat again tonight for while, come say hi!

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Happy Holidays

Hello to all. I have been a member for awhile and I just wanted to wish each and every one of you happy holidays and a better new year. I thank God every day for my cardiologist and my pacemaker and hope that most of you can do the same.

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time for replacement?

Hello Everyone,
I have a very old pm (16 years) that I rarely, if ever, use since an ablation 10 years ago. I was diagnosed with sinus node dysfunction when I was 9 (I'm 28 now) and had the pm implanted when I was 11. Anyway, I've been having some strange heart symptoms for about 6 months. After several doc appointments and a month long event monitor, I finally got a call from the doc yesterday that a monthy phone check detected that my pm is pacing my heart pretty much whenever it feel...

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Pawgles

How are you I will be in chat. Long time since contact

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Nobody Says Thank you

Anybody besides me ever notice how few people that post questions here bother to say thank you when somebody tries to help them with a reply. Especially the new ones. It ain't me they are not saying thank you to because I don't ever try to give any answers, but it just seems strange that so few people will take the time to say thank you. I looked at that other site and almost always them people will say thank you. But then they don't have near as many people asking questions as there is here...

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Atrial Pacing - UPDATE

As anyone who has read my past posts will know I’ve had a problem with atrial failure. The atrium will just not pump the blood and tries to work against the closed heart valves.

Many attempts to get adequate pacing established (including a thoracotomy) have failed.

UPDATE – I had surgery Thursday and the doctors were able to restore normal function to my heart by establishing pacing of the atrium.

The unique method used is the clincher and I hope anyone else out...

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MP3 Headphones


Interesting and helpful information:

mp3 Headphones and Pacemakers Don't Mix

Study Shows Magnets in Headphones Can Interfere With Heart Pacemakers or ICDs

By Charlene Laino

WebMD Health NewsReviewed by Elizabeth Klodas, MD,
FACC

Nov. 10, 2008 (New Orleans) -- If you have a pacemaker or an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD), do not take your mp3 headphones out of your ear and drape them in front of your chest.

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“Batteries not included” takes on a new meaning.

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