BS: Curmudgeon Gets New Battery

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon Gets New Battery
From: Amos
Date: 09 Mar 10 - 03:19 PM

I think SOME mp3s --the kind that help the heart--would definitely be a valuable addition. Would they have to put in Parental Controls to make sure you only downloaded the right stuff?


A

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon Gets New Battery
From: ClaireBear
Date: 09 Mar 10 - 12:05 PM

Best of everything -- luck, food, spirits (both kinds), recovery experiences, futures, and so on.

Does this mean Tom will have to make a CD, to be sold in a boxed set with Kendall's, called "A Salt and Battery"? (You could then call the set "A Dose of Salts.")

Getting coat...

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon Gets New Battery
From: gnu
Date: 09 Mar 10 - 11:51 AM

Me too!

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon Gets New Battery
From: SINSULL
Date: 09 Mar 10 - 11:08 AM

Here's to a simple procedure, a speedy recovery and getting the hell out of there before something else goes wrong.
Good luck, Tom.
Mary

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon Gets New Battery
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 09 Mar 10 - 11:01 AM

Maybe he'll get around to asking them to modify the defibrillator/pacemaker so he can download music to it -- I've been suggesting that for years. After all, it's just a little computer (that gets downloaded every 3 months).

When I asked one of the Mass General docs why, if the manual said the battery needed replacing after 5 years, and this April (next month) will be SIX years, why his cardio team hadn't replaced it before this, he said, "Good battery."

Hope Tom's life (and coping with anesthesia) improve with the newly charged power supply!

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon Gets New Battery
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Mar 10 - 10:54 AM

Since I can't think of any good battery jokes right now, I'll just say..... hooray!

(one bad joke: if they don't do it right, there's grounds for assault with battery)

Subject: BS: Curmudgeon Gets New Battery
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 09 Mar 10 - 10:39 AM

Figured I'd better start this now because I won't have time either tonight when I get home from work or tomorrow morning.

We have to be at York (Maine) Hospital tomorrow morning at 7 a.m. It's a little over an hour drive, so we have to be on the road before 6. I don't get home tonight from work until 9-ish, so I guess I'll have to wind down fast and sleep fast.

But Tom's defibrillator/pacemaker battery is -- at long last -- going to be renewed tomorrow.

Not sure how long it will take. It's a multi-part procedure (he can probably fill you all in on it) that involves a mid-day lobster roll. (That part I get to share in! That and the driving him home.)

Then, supposedly, the defib will be reset so he has some ENERGY, which he hasn't had since they started readjusting it to extend the battery life.

All good wishes for an uneventful procedure welcomed! As with any number of friends these days, we're getting pretty sick of hospitals.

Linn