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keith.willey1

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Well done for sheer grit. Hope the defib isn't patched into your Maserati battery... at least fit a tender!

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Phil the Brit

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Many thanks to everyone for all the good wishes.
Not my first rodeo unfortunately, had a month driving ban in 2002 for heart attack.
I don't know if any of you guys have a pacemaker and defibrilator fitted. I have never had my defib go off ever before, (fitted 2012) but it is just like a stallion kicking you in the chest with both back hooves as hard as it can. Unbelieveable sensation, I thought I had been shot, it was so sudden. Not an experience I ever want to experience again but I guess this wonderful piece of kit did its job and restarted my heart. Five minutes later I was standing, all be it clinging on to a privet hedge in the garden for support.
You wouldn't want it going off whilst driving and it is easy to see why you are instantly banned from driving. Because the problem has now been fixed, there was a broken wire on the pacemaker and they opened me up and soldered in a new wire (probably an over simplification), then my ban is reduced to a month.
Happy days now and a couple of weeks recuperation. I can sure live with that.
Phil
 
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Sounds like a throttle body rebuild Mike would be doing!!!

Glad you are on the mend.

My old dad had a defib one fitted and yes he had it go off a couple of times, once when he had his head in a kitchen cupbord and smashed a few plates!
 
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Wanderer

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Phil the Brit said:
Many thanks to everyone for all the good wishes.
Not my first rodeo unfortunately, had a month driving ban in 2002 for heart attack.
I don't know if any of you guys have a pacemaker and defibrilator fitted. I have never had my defib go off ever before, (fitted 2012) but it is just like a stallion kicking you in the chest with both back hooves as hard as it can. Unbelieveable sensation, I thought I had been shot, it was so sudden. Not an experience I ever want to experience again but I guess this wonderful piece of kit did its job and restarted my heart. Five minutes later I was standing, all be it clinging on to a privet hedge in the garden for support.
You wouldn't want it going off whilst driving and it is easy to see why you are instantly banned from driving. Because the problem has now been fixed, there was a broken wire on the pacemaker and they opened me up and soldered in a new wire (probably an over simplification), then my ban is reduced to a month.
Happy days now and a couple of weeks recuperation. I can sure live with that.
Phil
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How come mine was six months no driving when I’d just had it fitted and it never went off?
 
Phil the Brit

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Wanderer said:
How come mine was six months no driving when I’d just had it fitted and it never went off?
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From the DVLA website
It is six months unless either of the following two examples apply
1/ Unless underlying cause has been identified and treated
2/ Your heart rhythm is controlled for four weeks
 
GeoffCapes

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Phil the Brit said:
30 day driving ban now finished yesterday. Taking Masser out today, ironically my first trip is to Basildon Hospital for a pacemaker check and adjustment.
Happy days! :)
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I wouldn't take the Maser then! Especially if you want to see it again after your check up!
 
Wanderer

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Was you licence not actually revoked? I think mine was for my 6-month one, but to be honest not actually sure now. Don't remember re-applying for it.
 
Wanderer

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Phil the Brit said:
Many thanks to everyone for all the good wishes.
Not my first rodeo unfortunately, had a month driving ban in 2002 for heart attack.
I don't know if any of you guys have a pacemaker and defibrilator fitted. I have never had my defib go off ever before, (fitted 2012) but it is just like a stallion kicking you in the chest with both back hooves as hard as it can. Unbelieveable sensation, I thought I had been shot, it was so sudden. Not an experience I ever want to experience again but I guess this wonderful piece of kit did its job and restarted my heart. Five minutes later I was standing, all be it clinging on to a privet hedge in the garden for support.
You wouldn't want it going off whilst driving and it is easy to see why you are instantly banned from driving. Because the problem has now been fixed, there was a broken wire on the pacemaker and they opened me up and soldered in a new wire (probably an over simplification), then my ban is reduced to a month.
Happy days now and a couple of weeks recuperation. I can sure live with that.
Phil
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When the fitted mine they tested it after giving me a shot of morphine. Wow, that was fantastic!!!
 
Wanderer

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Memories! One morning I heard a fire engine at 7:45 am, then it went, next morning the same. The next morning I had an idea and looked to where my defibrillator was, and it was coming from there! Battery going flat apparently. Went to get it replaced (at hospital not ASDA) and the Doc in a rich German accent, my name is Doctor Weiss, no fukn sense of humour or charisma at all. Told me it's easier that getting it fitted orginally, it wasn't they replace the whole thing not just the battery, and it hurt like ****.

Then he told me off for leg twitching (have restless leg syndrome especially when nervous) cos I was making the monitors bounce and he couldn't read them. Blood everywhere, wouldn't let me keep the old one cos there might be charge in it, the miserable sod.

First one, replacement one..

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