My life or death issue Resolved; Move over Rolling Stones—Satisfaction is Mine
I am a 72 year old paraplegic, I do not have spleen and have a COPD diagnosis.
Critically, I needed to have the battery for my pacemaker replaced within the next month or I will get very sick. My pacemaker keeps me alive, Without a pacemaker, I probably would be dead by the end of the day, With it, I can function well for 10 years. Nearly twenty years ago, a surgeon inserted the pacemaker shortly after a heart attack.
https://www.susquehannahealth.org/doctors/sree-hari-kesan-md
My 2001 recovery took place at Philadelphia’s superb Thomas Jefferson Hospital. My excellent cardiologist surgeon also inserted a stent which continues to hold my heart walls up so blood arrives unimpeded.
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My 2001 recovery took place at Philadelphia’s superb Thomas Jefferson Hospital. My excellent cardiologist surgeon also inserted a stent which continues to hold my heart walls up so blood arrives unimpeded.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/pacemaker/about/pac-20384689
Every ten years or so, the pacemaker requires a new battery. Medicare being Medicare insists that I wait a lengthy time between the period when I become sick and the time I die.
This is the government’s notion of just in time delivery.
Last week, a health worker in my local hospital here in rural PA where the place is all too briefly empty, tested my pacemaker.
I have one month before I become very ill. I remember how ill because 10 years ago I endured the wait.
This time, under Medicare regulations, I might not die until August.
In the interim, the sickness coupled with a compromised immune system will put me at greater risk.
Further, by then the now empty hospital will be filled with Corona virus victims making routine surgery the moral equivalent of death.
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