Becky!!! You're baa-aa-ack!!!

Great to see you posting again. Sorry for your setback. It's easy to get impatient when you're supposed to be mending.

Behave yourself!!! No more 2-handed hairwashing!

Welcome Back Becky!!!
I'm glad you're back and doing so well..We missed you!

Hi Becky, don't think we've met but just wanted to add my get well wishes and glad you did so well during surgery!

HI BECKY!!! So glad your'e back and mending! We missed ya around here. My Mother had a pacemaker and had to go through the same rituals you do. I always found it quite amazing, but when they'd check it over the phone and she had to put that magnet on her PM, I would always hold my breath. She'd laugh at me.

She had hers for 9-10 yrs and then had to have a new generator put in. She was a tiny lil thing, so you could see the bump of the PM and even the seatbelt would bother her, so I got her a seatbelt cushion, so it wouldn't rub.

You take care and don't overdo; I miss your picking on me too!!

daisymay,

I'm glad to be back and missed picking on you too. LOL

If your Mother had a pacemaker, then you know what I'm going through for sure. They just shove that thing into the skin and tape it down to heal. It's the only place on my body that doesn't have any extra skin. LOL It shows on my chest also and is a very sensitive area.

I do not know why the first surgeon decided to put it on my right side when I had the first one implanted in 1996. I am going to have a harder time getting around since I use my cane on my right side.

My long time Cardiologist retired in Sept. He checked it every 3 months in his office. My new Cardio wanted it checked every 4 weeks since it was over 11 years old and he started me on the Raytel telephone checks in November with the big magnet to check if it was working. My February check came back irregular because the top chamber had stopped working.

The new monitoring systems has a lot more features and will give the doctor the information directly. It makes me feel better to know that since I didn't realize anything was wrong. I noticed that I was getting more unsteady, weaker and my fatigue was getting worse. I thought it was a combination of age, MS, Avonex and stress. It didn't occur to me that it was my pacemaker.

If I stay on the game board too long, you guys are going to have to make me log off. LOL

Sassy,

Thank you for the get well wishes and welcoming me back. I'm doing better everyday.

Oh Becky! No one picks on you!!! LOL

I'm glad you are back too!

Hope, And those bicycle glasses, my dear, are going to be tricycles! Just watch!!! That's what you get when you put it off too long! (happened to me!!!)

Bird,

No one picked on me while I was gone. KM was ready to get me last night when I came back after 4 weeks. I had to play the sympathy card so she just went easy on me. LOL

I don't need the bicycle glasses, it's our little friend who wears them. I just use reading glasses.

Today has been one week since my incision flared up again. It has been driving me nuts and hurts and wearing me out. I have a lot of patience but it is really running out over this constant pain for almost 5 weeks.

After I took my shower, I looked at it in the magnifying mirror and saw some little things sticking out of both ends, where all the darn pain is. I got my tweezers and pulled on one and it was a stitch!!! I pulled 2 more out and the relief was immediate. I pulled on the 4th stitch and it just kept coming until it hurt so I stopped immediately and called the surgeon's office.

They had me come in immediately. I threw on some clothes and drove myself to get there before their office closed. It's only about a mile from my house.

The nurse said that occasionally the stitches don't dissolve and come to the surface. That's just GREAT!

She said that everything looked fine and I already knew that since this was my second pacemaker. I just didn't know why there were threads popping out of my skin. I'm supposed to call them if things don't get better and in the meantime take pain pills and be more careful using my right arm.

I needed to vent and now I feel all better mentally but not physically.

PolarExpress,

I missed you all too! I didn't realize how important all my buds on this site were until I couldn't get on it.

I so appreciate all the support from everyone.