| A Woman in Dad's Room? |
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| Monday, 09 August 2010 | |
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Dad has a pacemaker/defibrillator combo that is implanted in his chest. If his heart goes too fast, the device slows it down. If it goes too slow, it shocks him like on TV when the doctor yells, "Clear!" and puts the paddles on a person's chest to revive them. With technology being what it is today, he has a machine that sits next to his bed and takes a reading of his pacemaker's activity over the last 24 hours every night at 2:00 a.m. Remember this? So anyway, our electricity went out for about 15 minutes yesterday morning and interrupted the signal to Dad's machine. In a female voice it says over the speaker, "Please check your implanted device. The information has been delayed to Guidant." Dad came out of his room complaining that "some woman" had awakened him. At first, I thought he was dreaming and then He said, "She keeps talking about some device. I don't know who the hell she was." I suppose the "talking woman in the box" is probably not the greatest thing to have when you are trying to keep someone with Alzheimer's from being too confused! |
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