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Hi everyone,
I am in fact doing well . Went in yesterday, they started at about 8:30 am ; thought I was going to get squeezed in , she did me first. My Ep saw me as she walked into the hospital through registration , tapped me on the shoulder and said , hi sweetie , you're a celebrity! She wanted to know how the New York times found me( HCMA-Lisa). She said Oh yeah. Well it seems while I was being deluged by the media in Boston , the RI stations were calling her. She discovered all the blitz while she was having her morning coffee monday with her friend and he remarked as he read the New York Times that Guidant was again in the news along with this woman who was having her defibrilator removed and replaced by a Medtronic devise. He told her she might want to look at the article before she headed off to work. She looked and said she gasped and all confidentiallity went out the window. "Oh my gosh it's my patient , Pam."
We made jokes all morning and I said if 60 minutes called she would have to go with me . She said," I'm there with ya."
It did not take long for word to spread that I was the person in the news. The medtronic rep was so excited he went to a computer and uploaded copies of the article and dispersed them about the day sugical suite.
These recalls have caused a lot of chaos for this particular arrythmia clinic. They at the clinic are trying to keep up their sense of humor as they field all the influx of calls and patients.
Well I was awake, wide awake for most of it. My doctor kept joking and said aren't you sleeping yet? She kept asking the anesthesiologist , "are you giving her anything? Why isn't it working? Is she preparing for another interview?" Finally they had to really snow me so they could test the new devise. Next thing I was awake and they were stitching me up.. My EP feels that it may be my hemodynamic forcefully pumping heart that might reqiure me to suck in so much anesthesia with minimized effects. She feels they give doses that seem high to them as clinicians and low pumping heart patients but are small to an HCM heart. She said this high reqirement has followed me since original diagnosis. As I have no history of , pain killer use, alcohol intake or sleeping pill use, or illicit drugs, it is the only option. She also said when I woke up the first time I tried to get off the stretcher. She said ," you must have been trying to get another interview in." She is funny!!!
I felt ready to go 1 hour after the start , but of course , they made me ride the stretcher and lie in recovery for one more hour. They wanted to wheel chair me out, I walked. Out of there 3 hours total treatment.
Will be lying low resting arm and recovering. It is soar, no showers for a week... yuck , yuck!!!! Dressings daily for a week and Keflex 3 times a day, times 3 days. I return there in 1 week.
Thanks for all the well wishes.
Pam
I am in fact doing well . Went in yesterday, they started at about 8:30 am ; thought I was going to get squeezed in , she did me first. My Ep saw me as she walked into the hospital through registration , tapped me on the shoulder and said , hi sweetie , you're a celebrity! She wanted to know how the New York times found me( HCMA-Lisa). She said Oh yeah. Well it seems while I was being deluged by the media in Boston , the RI stations were calling her. She discovered all the blitz while she was having her morning coffee monday with her friend and he remarked as he read the New York Times that Guidant was again in the news along with this woman who was having her defibrilator removed and replaced by a Medtronic devise. He told her she might want to look at the article before she headed off to work. She looked and said she gasped and all confidentiallity went out the window. "Oh my gosh it's my patient , Pam."
We made jokes all morning and I said if 60 minutes called she would have to go with me . She said," I'm there with ya."
It did not take long for word to spread that I was the person in the news. The medtronic rep was so excited he went to a computer and uploaded copies of the article and dispersed them about the day sugical suite.
These recalls have caused a lot of chaos for this particular arrythmia clinic. They at the clinic are trying to keep up their sense of humor as they field all the influx of calls and patients.
Well I was awake, wide awake for most of it. My doctor kept joking and said aren't you sleeping yet? She kept asking the anesthesiologist , "are you giving her anything? Why isn't it working? Is she preparing for another interview?" Finally they had to really snow me so they could test the new devise. Next thing I was awake and they were stitching me up.. My EP feels that it may be my hemodynamic forcefully pumping heart that might reqiure me to suck in so much anesthesia with minimized effects. She feels they give doses that seem high to them as clinicians and low pumping heart patients but are small to an HCM heart. She said this high reqirement has followed me since original diagnosis. As I have no history of , pain killer use, alcohol intake or sleeping pill use, or illicit drugs, it is the only option. She also said when I woke up the first time I tried to get off the stretcher. She said ," you must have been trying to get another interview in." She is funny!!!
I felt ready to go 1 hour after the start , but of course , they made me ride the stretcher and lie in recovery for one more hour. They wanted to wheel chair me out, I walked. Out of there 3 hours total treatment.
Will be lying low resting arm and recovering. It is soar, no showers for a week... yuck , yuck!!!! Dressings daily for a week and Keflex 3 times a day, times 3 days. I return there in 1 week.
Thanks for all the well wishes.
Pam
Do you think 60 minutes will still call???
, no wardrobe or make-up for me ugh!!! Totally caught unprepared interview , done at NEMC in Boston on Monday. The voice probabably does not match the movement of the lips. 
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