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- By Walter · New reply 4:04 pm
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- Hi everyone. We added a new feature today that you can use to support your groups and the organizations that sponsor them, and get the word out about the causes that are important to you. If you visit ...
Help Please!
- By amycarole · Posted 3:29 pm
- Discussion in Tips for caregivers · 0 replies
- My husband suffered SCA on November 2, 2009. He died in my arms. I had to administer CPR until the paramedics arrived. He was in a coma on life support for 5 days, two weeks later ICD implanted. When ...
New to Group, having PM/ICD implanted Monday
- By HawaiiDiva · New reply 3:02 pm
- Journal · 14 replies
- Hello everyone. I'm a 47 year old woman who lives in Hawaii, and I found this site when searching for information on dual device pace makers and defibs. I am scheduled to undergo implantation on Monday ...
Spring In Indiana-bike riding time?
- By wdiane · New reply 2:05 pm
- Journal · 1 reply
- Fianlly, the snow is melting! Can spring be far away? But that means that Steve (who had an SCA in May 09) is counting the days when he can be back on his bike. I myself believe that the bike is "cursed ...
Okay Here We Go
- By lina2die4 · New reply 12:25 pm
- Journal · 5 replies
- I have been crying half the day. The doctor came and talked to me and told me that Randy's brother very soon would take him off of his nutrition. I know I should fight. I just don't know what to do. I ...
Just need to get it off my chest.......
- By KareyH · New reply 11:56 am
- Journal · 7 replies
- I haven't posted anything in awhile and I'm not sure why I'm posting now, other than to say something that has been weighing heavy on my mind. Maybe I'll feel better if I just get it off my chest. The ...
Almost two years, post-sca.
- By rturri · New reply 11:27 am
- Journal · 20 replies
- This is my happiest journal entry since joining this group on July 14, 2009. Since my sca on April 6, 2008, some improvements in my condition have finally become established. First, I can say that my ...
Android app is now available, in addition to iPhone app
- By Cocreator · Posted 10:20 am
- Discussion in Promoting CPR and AEDs · 0 replies
- Search “ShowNearby AED†in the Android Market on your Android smartphones to download. There are both features to take pictures and send the GPS coordinated of public AEDs to us, as well as to look ...
Lets Complicate Things a Little More~~~~~~
- By MelissaShuford · New reply 9:10 am
- Journal · 3 replies
- Yesterday i received a letter from the review of my sleuth heart recorder (implanted loop recorder)Stating that after review on 2/25/2010 they had attempted to contact me for several days to discuss findings ...
any survivors after bone lesion and 5 brain mets?
- By antonella · New reply yesterday at 10:22 pm
- Journal · 2 replies
- Sorry not the best title but that's where I'm at right now ned for almost 2 years and wow. Tomorrow I will know how they want to treat my brain mets had stereotactic radiation to the one lesion in the ...
It's WBR unfortunately
- By antonella · New reply yesterday at 9:54 pm
- Journal · 1 reply
- Well I went in to fight for Gamma kinife but they said I now had 6 lesions and there could be more seedlings that the mri can't detect so they want to do wbr. So monday thats what will happen for 2 weeks ...
My First Shock - is there a recovery time?
- By isufan · New reply yesterday at 6:05 pm
- Discussion in Living with an ICD · 7 replies
- I had my ICD implanted on 2/16/2009 and received my first shock due to v fib last Friday 3/5/2010. I have had a few tests but as expected they probably will not find any known cause. I have been very ...
I met My Father today~~~~
- By MelissaShuford · New reply yesterday at 5:58 pm
- Journal · 9 replies
- WOW !!!! What am I feeling.....God please embrace me and hold me close...tenderly remind me of your unconditional love that has carried me thru almost 47 years now....even when I didn't know it you were ...
Em.....Nerves ...... and the Gettysburg Address
- By MelissaShuford · New reply yesterday at 5:41 pm
- Journal · 3 replies
- My precious Em, Bless her heart and may I request a prayer for her as we I post~~~~She has studied the Gettysburg address inside and out and knows it well and today is THE DAY to recite it in class ~as ...
Shocks explained??
- By dinahj · New reply yesterday at 6:45 am
- Journal · 17 replies
- According to my "installers" at the cardiac centre the ICD does a routine check up every 23 hours which I did not know. Unfortunately for me I happen to part of a very small group of people who feel this ...
Good VA News for Vietnam Vets
- By sclcsurvivor · Posted March 9, 2010
- Discussion in State and local advocacy · 0 replies
- Really good news for Vietnam Vets with Ischemic heart disease, Parkinsons, Type B leukemias. As the link shows the VA is going to use automatic claim processing for these claims and hopefully spread it ...
firefighters with ICD
- By firsboss · New reply March 9, 2010
- Discussion in Living with an ICD · 6 replies
- Does anyone know a firefighter or is there any firefighters on here that have a ICD in ...
A Special Blessing to Everyone~~~~~~
- By MelissaShuford · New reply March 9, 2010
- Journal · 9 replies
- I hope EVERYONE finds themself with a special BLESSING today!!!! Seek and you will find it ~~~~in a smile, a flower, a song, a phone call, a post, a child, a friend, a dog, .......Open your heart and ...
do stereods give you swollen neck?
- By antonella · New reply March 9, 2010
- Journal · 2 replies
- Hello my friends more questions. I was just found to have 5 brain lesions which the docs have not told me how they are going to treat it. I have already asked for Gamma but they want wbr so the battle ...
Cheating Death
- By wdiane · Posted March 8, 2010
- Journal · 0 replies
- I am in the process of writing a book about my husbands experience with SCA. But I want the book to be about more than just him and I need info from all of you my friends. This messge board will play ...
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