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pacemaker installed

  it was crazy. got to hospital 7am. surgery 9am . pacemaker sewn in by 11am. great lunch. icu till 5pm great supper. in room asleep with mona by 10pm. up for 7am breakfast. tests till great lunch. noon discharge. ran some errands on way home in time for judge judy. 4pm. turns out i have the FIRST newest pacemaker anybody ever saw. so new they couldnt get it to work. took several tries by several people. i was very first. not analog. digital. is remotely controlled WITHOUT my knowledge or permission. nobody told me that. i just got the contract. i  am owned by them now. nothing i can do about it now. doesnt hook to heart physically. uses inductance . PERMANENT ! i feel better than before. 

clarification

My open heart surgery

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  you never can tell. often what you think is good is bad and vice versa. at age 73 i was never sick a day in my life. i was in perfect health as far as i knew. my wifes optician said it was time for her cataracts. she referred her to my cataract surgeon. i had mine done a few years earlier.  when he checked her blood pressure he found it was sky high. unable to continues he referred her to our very first GP who ordered up a full battery of tests. she needed some starting point. since i was there with her she asked what she could do for me. i allowed as i was having chest pains since just after the start of the covid lockdown. she ordered up a full battery of tests for me. when the initial test results came back it was great. all  "unremarkable" on the report.. i am in perfect health. all except ONE item. my CALCIUM COUNT! calcium count is a constant that increases with age naturally . it can vary but generally speaking is averaged by gender. for instance a 73 year old female