CJ

Welcome to the crowd.

I have A-FIB. Had abulation (burning) and also cutting the nerves in
upper chamber with a knife. Both were done through an arterie and not
open heart surgery.

Bad news is that neither procedure fixed my A-fib and have been living
with it for 7-8 years.

Have gone through 3 pacemakers and latest 2 months ago is like
Cheney's with a defib in it. Current one also three leads from it to
upper and lower chambers of heart.

I asked my surgeon how long I would live and he said until I die (
Didn't think that was a very good answer for what he got to put the
pacemaker in.

Prior pacemaker only had two leads and it fired the upper chamber and
then the lower chamber which was supposed to give normal blood flow. I
didn't feel any problems with it but they said I had a lazy heart and
needed a new one with defib????????

I'm not restricted from driving but am sure would not pass the
physical for my commercial/instructor ticket.

I am on coumadin (blood thinner) and just touch something and bleed.
Have scars from this on both arms. If I'm doing any work I wear rubber
gloves to prevent fingers and hands from bleeding.

If I can answer any questions let me know. You can go off line to my
e-mail address at top of this post.

Good luck.

Big John
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On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 07:36:28 -0700, C J Campbell
wrote:

It appears that I am having a little bit of trouble with my heart. It
came on rather suddenly, as an EKG last December showed no problem at
all. But apparently I have developed something called an atrial
fibrillation. It doesn't look good for my flying status, but we shall
see.