[Becky21]

Hi Everyone,

It's been 4 weeks since my pacemaker was replaced and I'm doing pretty good. I want to thank everyone for their good wishes, PM's, emails and prayer's for me. I am so grateful to all of you for thinking of me.

I do have some more healing to do. I over did it when I was able to start using my right arm last week. I wound up irritating my incision and it's not quite healed all the way. I could not figure out why it started hurting so much 2 days ago until I realized that I must have irritated it when I was washing my hair with 2 hands instead of one. I am back to left hand only when shampooing my hair and keeping the right arm down again.

The implant site and incision are extremely sensitive and will be for a while. Nothing can touch it without causing pain. I dressed for the first time last Wednesday and it felt so great but now I am back in my gown for a few more days.

Even though I had the first pacemaker for 11 years, my body knows its a forgein object and is trying to adjust to it. It wants the pacemaker out of there and it is giving me some spasms, twiches and pretty hard pain.

The pacemaker is programmed to kick in if my pulse tries to go lower than 60 beats per minute and I can feel it kick in occasionally so I know it's working. This pacemaker is like a computer that stores my heart activity and in 3 months I will put a device over it and it will transmit all my heart activity by telephone to my doctor. If any problems show up, they will call me and I will go to see the doctor. I will go to his office every 6 months and have a tech check the pacemaker and make any adjustments needed. So, I send the info from home every 6 months and see the doctor every 6 months so it's monitored all year. It's an amazing little device.

The doctor's in the past have been very reluctant to say my heart rhythm problems and low pulse are MS related. There is no data to support this as an MS symptom. Now, I am hearing from my Cardio/Electrophysiolgist that since the problems began when MS became apparent and I had 3 brain stem lesions on my last MRI in 1994, that it is more than likely MS. I guess I will never know for sure.

Thanks again to you all and especially Sandy for keeping everyone posted. She's a great BFF and a very special person.

[SurvivingMSwithHOPE]

Becky,

It's so good to see your update! I'm sorry your still in some pain! You know you are always in my thoughts and prayers!

Tomorrow, I go for my "bicycle glasses" I still crack up over that! Talk to you soon!

Love ya and take care!

[Becky21]

Originally Posted by SurvivingMSwithHOPE

Becky,

It's so good to see your update! I'm sorry your still in some pain! You know you are always in my thoughts and prayers!

Tomorrow, I go for my "bicycle glasses" I still crack up over that! Talk to you soon!

Love ya and take care!

Girl,

It cracks me up everytime I think about the "bicycle glasses". You will have to send me a picture of them since I can't quite visualize what they look like. LOL

Thanks for your good wishes. This pain will go away soon. I hope you are feeling better. You are in my thoughts and prayers too.

Love & Hugs

[weegot5kiz]

Nice to see your post Becky

You know what needs to be done, just take your time, in situations such as these patience is a virtue, one step at a time.

Glad to hear all is going well



peace

[Koala77]

Welcome back Becky.

I'm pleased your operation went well and that you're getting over the surgery, but I'm sorry to hear that you're still in pain.

Please take it easy and let us know how you're getting on.

[Becky21]

Frank,

Thank you. I have a lot of patience but jumped the gun on this. I am a very slow healer and should have known better.

I am anxious to get my game playing skills back so we can play and have some mindless fun in the game room.

Originally Posted by weegot5kiz

Nice to see your post Becky

You know what needs to be done, just take your time, in situations such as these paitence is a virtue, one step at a time.

Glad to hear all is going well



peace

[tkrik]

Becky - so glad to see you back. I saw your post on the bad habits game and am just now seeing this. I am so glad you are on the mend and are able to post some more. We missed you.

[Becky21]

Koala,

Thank you.

I'm taking it easy and doing better today. It just takes time and I have plenty of that. LOL I just did too much and should have know better. I have made up for that the last 2 days by doing absolutely nothing.

It's been tough not being able to get on the board through for the last month. I am so behind on how everyone is doing. I'm going to come back slowly and try to catch up.

I really missed everyone. I feel like everyone is part of my family.

Originally Posted by Koala77

Welcome back Becky.

I'm pleased your operation went well and that you're getting over the surgery, but I'm sorry to hear that you're still in pain.

Please take it easy and let us know how you're getting on.

[KarenMarie]

We need you - tkrik, Bird and I ran out of people to pick on for bad habits and couldn't think of any more reasons to fire people so I'm afraid I picked on JessieSue - but now you're back with Sting and all YOUR bad habits - yeah - the show must go on ! Just take it slow - not too much typing -

[Becky21]

tkrik

I am so glad to be back. I really missed you all and my game playing buds. I have so much fun on that site playing those funny games.

I am definitely on the mend and should be 100% any day now.

Originally Posted by tkrik

Becky - so glad to see you back. I saw your post on the bad habits game and am just now seeing this. I am so glad you are on the mend and are able to post some more. We missed you.