They make a skin and flesh pocket to put the device in usually between your left chest and the top of your left shoulder. The device is less than half the size of what people used to have in their bodies and now is usually just a little larger than most cigarette lighters. It is sort of like having a miniature laptop computer installed in a flesh pocket and there is very little scarring too. I have just a little line scar horizontal about 2 to 3 inches across.
Actually, I found the hardest thing to get used to wasn't what I worried about before. Initially the hardest thing to get used to is not using your left arm to lift things over about 8 pounds for 6 weeks and not reaching above your head for 6 weeks. Initially, this is the hardest thing to get used to. And at first you can't get it wet where the incision is healing like in a shower or bath or pool because you don't want it to get infected until the incision heals. IN my case they put in a defibrillator pacemaker which will also restart your heart if it stops for any reason.
Long term the hardest thing to get used to is that you didn't die and instead might have 20 years or more left of your life with all your mental faculties (if you are lucky). Why?
Because one of the things that causes mental failure is not having enough blood in your brain 24 hours a day. Once you put a pacemaker in your brain gets enough blood 24 hours a day.
So, like in my case my heart never worked better than it does now at 73.
Why?
Because I always had an irregular heartbeat my whole life. The pacemaker got rid of that problem completely.
I also had one chamber of my heart not beating at the right time. The pacemaker got rid of that problem completely.
So, as a result my heart never worked better than it does now at 73 years of age. And once your incision heals you can swim in a pool or take a bath or shower again because your 10 year battery pacemaker is sealed inside your body so the water cannot get to it and damage it and your battery lasts for 10 years time.
What is the hardest thing to get used to with a pacemaker one year after having it installed.
The hardest thing to get used to is dealing with still being alive. Before the pacemaker I was slowly dying and so I was shutting down both psychologically and physically for at least the previous 2 years because I was slowly dying. So, the hardest thing to do with a pacemaker for me is to wake up and live again after shutting down for dying. And the whole coronavirus thing makes this even more difficult to face. However, luckily I have a very good wife who is my medical Advocate whose uncle was a cardiologist which is very handy now and all my children and friends are very supportive to me "Waking UP!" to being alive again.
So, learning to be totally alive again after almost dying is the hardest thing for me now. But, I'm getting better at it because I have now been ALIVE with a new pacemaker one year the beginning of June 2021!
By God's Grace
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