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Still Waiting For The Heart Monitor To Arrive


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Well it doesn't have to come from a long way from my city it's about 60 miles and before it arrived in two days. This will be my second time experiencing a slow heart beat and this time it was really low so needless to say I'm a bit worried not knowing the real reason this is happening only speculations and I'm no doctor. It's times like these you just don't know however everybody knows when the heart stop beating you are a gonna.

 

Right away you start to think about your age then you wonder with all you been through in the last 9 years is it your time to depart this earth? Either way you are concerned no matter who you are. So here I sit waiting for it to arrive in the mail or by FedEx so all my thoughts turns to God needless to say I'm praying.

Now the steroid injection must have had something to do with the very slow beat because it was OK before the procedure as I stated in my last blog. I suppose it's little things like this that make survivors so uncertain what is happening to the broken body.

 

On top of that I felt great for one day after the injection but from then until now, hey it's been a wild ride and not being able to check my heart beat lately. I thought about trying to find that kind of machine where I can check it myself. I've had back problems for many years, really since 1961 getting knocked off a tank at the Berlin wall as it was being constructed when the gunner turned the gun tube as I was outside trying to pee. The tank commander gave me permission to do so but the gunner was doing something he had no business. I was in the hospital about a week for my back.

 

Then of course in Vietnam I got hit and operated on in the field to save my life. So I have been suffering for many, many years but not until now about this slow heart beat thing. Maybe the injection was a bit much I could feel it on my paralyzed side down to my toes. So now I'm back to using the back patches to control some of the hard pain so close to my spine. Now that same wall is no longer standing since the days of president Reagan. I left Germany in 1979 but never had a reason to visit Berlin again. I have 14 years of service in Germany and my daughter was born in Munich in 1964.

 

Normally I'm not up this late but my back is hurting it was a very warm day today at 85 degrees, it set a record for this day then tomorrow is suppose to be cool so it's up and down plus rain too is on the way. I'm sorta rambling but my mind is going and coming about now so it's time to close this blog and turn in. Hopefully tomorrow the heart monitor unit will arrive and I can figure out where I stand in my condition. I feel like a Wounder Warrior now. But I got my wife whom has turned in for the night to rise early tomorrow for work so I'll probably lie awake for hours wondering what's next.

 

Well hope I didn't confuse the readers of this blog I'm still a concerned survivor from a brain bleed so hope you can understand me. Oh, I just looked at the clock it's time for the ten O'clock news so see ya's.

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Guest lwisman

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Fred.

 

I am praying for you. Hope the monitor comes soon. Keep the faith.

 

Lin

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Thanks you all and I sure hope it arrives tomorrow Saturday I will be a happy camper. If I knew the cause of a slow heart beat I could be more at peace but not knowing I keep saying Feet don't fail me now.

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Guest hostwill

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Fred,

First, Thanks for your service. I too spent 22 years in Air Force, VietNam was my first tour of duty. Luckily, no incoming rockets had my name on them and my oldest daughter Jeanna wa born in Germany at Bitburg. I spent a total of 11 years there, 4 in Spangdahlem, and 7 at Ramstein.

Small World eh? I have a pace-maker tester from VA, but mine came from San Francisco. I hope your monitor comes soon, but you know the speed of government isn't very quick. Keep us informed.

-will

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