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Chest Pain like hit by a Steel Pool.
I am sitting in the arm chair and watching a movie, suddenly chest pain is slowly coming up, is getting stronger and stronger, I am getting up and walking around. But it did not stop like always, it seemed impossible that anyone could endure such pain, I called my Daughter to call the Ambulance.
She got advised to turn on the light on the entry of our house and open the door. Shortly they have been there, came in with the stretcher, one of the paramedic had a defibrillator in her hand ready for action. The other one checked my blood pressure, I have been sweating, cheeking badly for pain, they put me on the stretcher and wheeled me to the Ambulance Van. Next they drove me to the Prinz Charles Hospital 26 km away, in a room I got hoked up with plenty cables feeding the monitoring system with all the information from my body.
The noise from all the different types of sounds made it impossible to sleep like at home, but it didn't matter, I needed despaired help. All of the staff have been very nice, and helpfully, I do not know what they feed in my body, I had no pain anymore the monitor showed what has been going on, my heart beat has been 43, very slow.
The next morning the Doctor explained to me there is a problem with my heart Rhythms, and he want to put an implantable defibrillator under my skin.How has it been done, a small…