More HEARTBEATS for Valentines Day!

That’s right, folks! That’s what my brother’s getting. Man, he always gets all the cool stuff! I guess, though, I should really be jealous of his wife. I mean, really, take an old married man (meaning:married for some number of years) and jazz him up on Valentines Day with extra heartbeats – heck! It’ll be like they just fell in love again!

Ok, serious, my brother has a heart that just ain’t acting quite right these days. They did some testing on him at home, decided he needed to come in for inpatient testing, and decided my super-young, was-just-a-teenager-the-other-day-I-swear brother needed a ….

Pacemaker?! What?! Are you kidding me?! Yikes. How in the holy hell did that happen? That’s like some old-people thing, you know? And Dave and I were just cruising with our friends in his oh-so-glorious bright-I-see-you-from-a-mile-away orange Mustang II just like the other day or something. Hanging out at that park off of Hillcrest and 635 – yeah, like ..ok, it might’ve been a couple years ago. Ok, maybe it was more than a couple. But I’m telling you – IT WASN’T THAT MANY YEARS AGO! REALLY!

I was a little freaked last night, but, then I remembered about my sweet friend, Freeman, whose had a bad heart for twenty years – and is still just fine – and I felt a whole lot better. And also, upon further investigation, these things, these pacemakers – are actually pretty damn cool little doohickeys!

I learned from the American Heart Association that the latest and the greatest are actually demand pacemakers, functioning very similarly to the thermostat in your home. They ‘kick on’ only when they’re needed. That’s pretty cool! And then I watched this cool media presentation that really helped me to see and understand how these little buggers work! And then I also found a very helpful and uber-necessary PDF that he will need to print out and fill out and keep in his wallet. It’s a Pacemaker Identification Card.

And the funny thing was that David, himself, actually described it to me like a stopwatch. So I told him when he gets out of there, we’re gonna have footraces with his chest! Now don’t be looking at me like that! You children of the 80’s know exactly what I’m talking about – you’d get the latest, greatest stopwatch for Christmas and you and your brothers and sisters would run right out of the house and race! I know you remember that!

So yeah, that’ll be funny – we’re both a little ‘fluffier’ nowadays! Ha! Of course, that might be just what we need!

Now ya’ll quit all this horseplay and funny stuff and say a prayer for my brother – got it? If that’s not your cup o’ tea, you’re more than welcome to think good thoughts – send good juju – whatever it is that you do!

Thanks!