Well, that was faster than I thought.\u00a0 Dr. Al-Ahmad just finished chatting with me.\u00a0 He told me that the procedure went just fine.\u00a0 They used the pacing catheter for just 2 or 3 minutes and that the old pacer “came out just fine”.\u00a0 He also explained that they opted for a slightly different type of pacer this time that has a longer battery life instead of one that “has more algorithms”.\u00a0 I thought that was a strange way of describing it, but he explained that the pacemaker they removed was the typical anti-tachycardia pacer that has a bunch of algorithms for pacing her heart down when\/if she gets fibrillation in her heart.\u00a0 Since she hasn’t needed those algorithms, he felt it best to get a pacer with “fewer algorithms” but with longer battery life.\u00a0 I guess they replace the memory unit that contains the code with a larger battery.\u00a0 Makes enough sense, I guess.<\/p>\n
So, now I wait for them to let me see her and we wait for her 4-6 hours of bed rest before we can go home.\u00a0 The surgeon said that she can go home tonight if she is feeling up to it and everything goes well this evening.\u00a0 I know Angie will want (very badly) to go home tonight, so let’s hope the next few hours go well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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