Nothing new to report here. I got my ICD checked today and everything looks good. I can't believe that in April it will be 5 years since I had it implanted! The nurse said my battery looked good and should last at least another year or two. That's good--although it's a minor surgery, nobody looks forward to that. She was also very impressed with my scar and implant site. The doctors at Stanford did a great job (but tell me something I didn't know). She turned on the beeping function, which is where the ICD beeps briefly every morning at 10:30 when the battery is going out. She tested it and it was very strange to hear my chest beeping. I also got signed up for the home monitor. My grandfather has one of these and it's very handy. It's a little machine I plug into the phone line, then stick the transmitter over my device and it reads it and sends the information to my doctor. I'm on an every-other schedule, so every other appointment I'll go in in person. My appointments are scheduled 4 months apart. So that's a bit more convenient.
Posted by Shelby at January 16, 2007 04:09 PM