On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:29:13 -0800 (PST), Tina
wrote:

I know about a-fib all too well. Sorry to hear about it. RF ablation
is becoming pretty common, and it works pretty well. Big guns are at
Cleveland and Duke -- I know of cases where the pacemaker reports zero
a-fib for years after an effective ablation. Even meds like Tykosin
(spelling very questionable) seem to lose their effectiveness after a
while.

Usually all that pacing is to prevent the heart from beating too slow,
the meds tend to do that. Is one of the pacers doing more than just
pacing?

I always enjoyed jet fighters sucking up the gear so quickly, but we
like a lot of air under us when we do it. Our IO 360 can be leaned to
a bit more than 8 gph, so with almost 60 gallons aboard it has long
legs. When the Mooney guys fixed the windscreen and cowling it really
made that airplane go fast. I wonder how hard it would have been to
retrofit the Rangers and Executives.

I think given our skill levels if we were using that Joe bar to get
the gear up we'd continue to wait until we had a stabilized climb
instead of just after rotation. It's all theory now, we have a motor
instead of the joe bar to bring the gear up.

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Tina

First had the manual cutting of nerves in upper chamber and would not
stay in sync.

Then had the RF procedure and it would stay in sync for a couple of
days and then fall out. Shock paddles several times and would reset
and still fell out in a day or two (

Doc said with my demand pacemaker I was getting what he called a "Lazy
Heart" so put in a full time pacemaker in both upper and lower
chambers and included a ICD (Like Chenny has). They couldn't get the
old pacemaker out so left in and set to only come on if new one quit.

Now with a unit in both shoulders I can't shoot my shot gun or rifle
(

Have thought about getting one of the new put puts which I could fly
since I have never been turned down for a medical, but have enough
flying that would only enjoy flying around the flag pole for a flight
or two.

I do have a friend who has a Caravan and would like some instrument
instruction which I could give since he would be PIC. Maybe this
summer. Still have my CFI.

Do miss the flying which I did from mid 30's to late '80's. (almost 60
years)

Are you going to get one of the Acclaim's 237 Ktas 1447 nm ??????????

Go fly and have fun )

Big John