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Title: I'd appreciate any prayers...
Post by: Fulcrum on January 16, 2014, 12:25:05 PM
My dad is going in to have a defibrillator implanted in his chest as I type this.  Drove up to Maryland from NC yesterday to be here for the procedure. 

Just posting on here to keep myself occupied...
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Post by: -ammo- on January 16, 2014, 12:36:10 PM
I'll add your Dad to my prayer list.  God bless!
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Post by: shppr01 on January 16, 2014, 12:58:35 PM
Sorry to hear this Fulcrum. If you want to talk , I live here close to Baltimore . Pm me and we will call .
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Post by: gyrene81 on January 16, 2014, 01:00:08 PM
i hope your dad gets through the procedure and returns to his home soon...  :salute
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Post by: Rogue9Volt on January 16, 2014, 01:01:53 PM
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Post by: wpeters on January 16, 2014, 01:19:22 PM
Sending my prayers up for him and your family :salute
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Post by: SilverZ06 on January 16, 2014, 01:21:00 PM
I do not believe in prayer, but I will keep your dad and your family in my thoughts. Hope everything goes smoothly  :salute
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Post by: uptown on January 16, 2014, 03:03:14 PM
Prayers sent bud  :pray
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Post by: Fulcrum on January 16, 2014, 03:12:11 PM
Thank you all!  He's out and it looks like everything is going to be OK.  Whew!
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Post by: SilverZ06 on January 16, 2014, 03:18:47 PM
Thank you all!  He's out and it looks like everything is going to be OK.  Whew!
:banana: :aok
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Post by: Slate on January 16, 2014, 03:22:14 PM
    Good to hear.  :aok  Hope he does well.

    My Niece has had a pacemaker since she was young and they had to replace it last year with the new one having a defibrillator built in. Thank God for good Doctors.

      

  
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Post by: shermanjr on January 16, 2014, 07:53:06 PM
my gramma had pacemaker put in and my great uncle did aswell heart problems run in my family wish him the best with that
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Post by: Triton28 on January 16, 2014, 07:55:24 PM
Glad to hear everything turned out ok..  :aok
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Post by: pembquist on January 16, 2014, 08:23:03 PM
Glad to here it went well. This kind of stuff is tough.
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Post by: stealth on January 16, 2014, 09:19:46 PM
I had a very similar situation this past year, my prayers are with you Fulcrum.  :pray
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Post by: Arlo on January 16, 2014, 09:50:21 PM
Thank you all!  He's out and it looks like everything is going to be OK.  Whew!

Good.
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Post by: DREDIOCK on January 16, 2014, 09:51:01 PM
My dad is going in to have a defibrillator implanted in his chest as I type this.  Drove up to Maryland from NC yesterday to be here for the procedure. 

Just posting on here to keep myself occupied...

Bummer. The great spirit and I are at odds right now but know you have my best wishes.

Keep posting. Sometimes sitting alone in your own thoughts can be your own worst enemy
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Post by: Dichotomy on January 17, 2014, 07:22:40 AM
thoughts and prayers
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Post by: TOMCAT21 on January 17, 2014, 11:24:32 AM
 :salute... prayers sent
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Post by: Fulcrum on January 17, 2014, 12:15:52 PM
Thanks all.  He's home today resting.  It's normally an outpatient procedure but given his history they decided to keep him one more night.

Thank you all for your thoughts and prayers....they are most appreciated.  :)
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Post by: gyrene81 on January 17, 2014, 12:34:54 PM
that's great news bud...most excellent.
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Post by: Rich46yo on January 17, 2014, 01:50:50 PM
Many good thoughts being sent your way. :pray
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Post by: Scherf on January 17, 2014, 01:53:15 PM
 :salute :pray
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Post by: ink on January 17, 2014, 03:21:44 PM
Bummer. The great spirit and I are at odds right now but know you have my best wishes.

Keep posting. Sometimes sitting alone in your own thoughts can be your own worst enemy

do you mean to say..."you are at odds with the great spirit..."

because he is not at odds with you....I am guessing anyways...do to the fact that you would even mention that as a point.....
that means he(<----used figuratively) is in your heart.....and if that is so, then you can not be one he does not contend with...

if he is in your heart he chose you.....

you shouldn't be angry at him for what happens in this world....we humans have brought it on our selves.....that whole "free will" thing is a 2 edged sword.

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Post by: JimmyD3 on January 17, 2014, 03:39:44 PM
 :pray
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Post by: Kenne on January 17, 2014, 06:45:05 PM
well I hope you dad has better luck than mine, 5mos after a 5 way bypass is still house bound.
but then, golfing with your friends, being independent is so overrated.

but why should complain. I got fired a mo after the operation for mentioning one day about back pain, lost my home, moved back in
with dad and now I can take care of him :D

once again, hope you dad has better luck than mine.


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Post by: Fulcrum on January 17, 2014, 07:38:54 PM
well I hope you dad has better luck than mine, 5mos after a 5 way bypass is still house bound.
but then, golfing with your friends, being independent is so overrated.

but why should complain. I got fired a mo after the operation for mentioning one day about back pain, lost my home, moved back in
with dad and now I can take care of him :D

once again, hope you dad has better luck than mine.


Very sorry to hear this.  This will be my father's fourth heart related operation.  He's had one three-way bypass then a second aborted bypass 5 years later that was changed to a procedure that keeps his heart going but reduced the amount it pumps per beat to about 30% of what a normal person's heart pumps.  End result...he does get around very well.  Add in the developed MS three years ago and then diabetes, which he didn't take care of so he ended up damaging his kidneys...and you can see he's got the veritable trifecta of issues.  70 years old and he gets around like a man 20 years older.  Most of his problems are pretty much a result of a not so healthy lifestyle i.e he smoked for 45 years, drank, ate both food groups (meat AND potatoes) etc. 

In all he seems to take it in stride.  He likes to quote Mickey Mantle:  "If I knew I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself."   :aok