My Life / My Thoughts
(Revised/Updated on Aug 18, 2020) Needed an upgrade of my pacemaker (Part 1) After some recovery time, finally, some time to make this post. As the title already said, Needed an upgrade of my pacemaker.Why? After the summer of 2018, it was time for a scheduled checkup.My specialist wanted to do an ECHO because the Read More…
(Revised/Updated on August 14, 2020) Got a pacemaker (Part 2) March 1, 2013, was the day that they would place the pacemaker.On that day I was not allowed to eat or drink anything.They could not tell me exactly, what time this would take place.It could be in the morning or in the afternoon.It also depended Read More…
(Revised/Updated on 13 August 2020) Got a pacemaker As you maybe already know from a previous post, I was admitted to the hospital in 2012 because of bacteria in my blood.This bacteria had attacked my artificial heart valve and was growing on it. After one week in the hospital with a 24h antibiotic drip, a Read More…
(Revised/Updated on August 11, 2020) Yes, heart patient. When you become older, it slowly becomes clearer to you.After the various checkups, you hear more and you know more.You also hear that considering your age, people don’t want to do much.So every year or every two years, a checkup. Until the year 2005.I was then unemployed Read More…
(Revised/Updated on August 10, 2020) Heart patient? Yes heart patient. Since birth, a noise was discovered around the heart.Can you call yourself then already a heart patient?You are still very young and still growing. Just going for a checkup every year and sometimes skipping a year.When you get older and go towards 10-12 years, you Read More…