Our health care system is messed up. It is a far cry from the personal touch of Marcus Welby,MD. How I long for those days. I understand why Michael Jackson would want to have a doctor on his payroll. I do too
As it is, I am just a cog in the wheel, a part on the assembly line. And what is really scary is that the very people who screwed up are the ones I have to turn to to fix me
12 years ago I had a radio frequency catheter ablation to fix an atrial tachycardia. Dr. Daedalus got too close to the sun and I eventually ended up without an av node. That’s how I got my first pacemaker. I’m a 1 to 2 per center. The joy just keeps coming. Dr. Daedalus did not fix my tachycardia, so now my pacemaker paces these rapid beats. Pacemakers that are meant to last 10 to 15 years, only last 5 years with me.
As it turns out, the research is showing that right ventricular pacing, which I have, leads to heart failure about 7% of the time. The lack of synchrony in the ventricles can cause the left ventricle to lose effectiveness. My life is in the very hands of the people who caused this and they are not returning my calls. This is one messed up system.
Just Passing Through 