Good thoughts requested for my dh, who has to have a new pacemaker implanted tomorrow morning. His present one was implanted ten years ago, with a 7-year guarantee, so it is not a shock. However, he has been feeling under the weather, so went back to his cardio (who has been keeping a tight eye on it and just checked it again a couple of weeks ago) and he said "Uh, oh. It's time!" They couldn't do it right away as he needs to be off the blood thinners for three days first, so we go to hospital at 6 a.m. Friday and they tell me I will be bringing him home by noon. Normally, they might have kept him overnight for monitoring, but the hospital we use is the only major one left in the city since the storm, and they are horrendously overcrowded. Naturally, I have been watching him like a hawk since Monday.
Olwyn Mary in New Orleans