Angie & Jim

Another device checkby Jim

Allysonne is here doing another pacer check with Angie.  We don’t get a turtle or blue bird now that we’re on the “adult” side, but that’s okay.  I showed Allysonne the picture I took yesterday and she loved it.  The device check is unfortunately rather uncomfortable.  They look at the history stored on the device, but then they also test some thresholds.  This is the uncomfortable part.  The only way to test the limits is to literally stop her heart.  They test the rate and the capture voltage by lower it until it stops.  It usually makes Angie a little queasy, but it is a necessity.  It was during a pacemaker interrogation on Monday that they discovered that she needed a new lead and this whole surgery happened.

The latest news is that we’ll go home today.  So far no one has said that we won’t, but they always use the word, “might”.  I imagine they are quite cautious in what they say, so if they are saying, “you might go home today,” they really mean, “you will probably go home today.”  How awful it would be to hear, “you might go home” all day and then say, “well, you’re not ready, so you’re staying here.”  I’m sure they avoid doing that.  Anyway, thanks for all your prayers and support!  Hopefully my next post will be from home!