[Magdalen] Prayers - cardiac worries

[Lynn Ronkainen]

praying  Sally
Lynn

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From: "Jay Weigel" <jay.weigel at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2014 3:35 PM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Prayers - cardiac worries

> Sounds to me like a Holter monitor (external) would be the first course of
> action to take. It's uncomfortable, kind of like having an octopus stuck 
> to
> your chest, but it's only for a few days. Are you sure that's not what
> they're doing, and then possibly a pacemaker? "Implantable recorder" 
> sounds
> a bit extreme, not to say improbable for a first step. That said, my dad
> got his pacemaker at 78 and felt like a new person thereafter. He had
> what's called "sick sinus syndrome" where his heart would just go off on
> tangents (fast OR slow) for no apparent reason. He lived to 93 with it and
> no further trouble.
>
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Sally Davies <sally.davies at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Please dear friends, bear my father in law Noel in your prayers. He is 
>> due
>> to have an "implantable cardiac recorder" sited to help his doctor figure
>> out why he's been having dizzy spells in recent months and years.
>>
>> As he's now in the upper Eighties and living alone, he's finding it hard 
>> to
>> deal with this and coping with the worry is sapping his energy and
>> strength, as well as his peace of mind. We are wondering whether it's
>> counter productive, since presumably the desired outcome is better 
>> health,
>> not sleepless nights and raised blood pressure!! But ours not to reason 
>> why
>> and he's not of a generation that would even make personal demands of the
>> medical profession let alone argue with it.
>>
>> I have also wondered why a doctor would want to put an elderly person
>> through this - or maybe simply not expect him to be anxious about it.
>>
>> Sally D
>>