It shows how much I have got used to having my pacemaker when the anniversary of having it fitted comes and goes and I don't realise it. In fact, until today, when I received an email notifying me of a comment being left on this blog, I had completely lost track of time.
4 years on... it isn't even a date in my diary.
I had my annual check some months back and although it was at a different hospital for the first time since I had it fitted, it was a 10 minute check, the battery is still showing 10 years life, and I was out of the hospital and on my way to work. My life has had many changes since I had the implant, I have gone through a divorce, I have moved to a different part of the country and I have finally finished writing my first novel and published it (see Through Time To London - Brindy Wilcox - available on Amazon - well, if I can't promote my own work on my own blog...). I took the discovery I had a heart condition as a kick up the backside that if I had any ambitions I should get on and start achieving them. A burning ambition of mine had been to have a book published. 4 years on I have achieved that.
So, to anyone due to have an implant or who has recently had one take heart from my experience - when you are told that the procedure is successful, now go and forget about it and enjoy your life... go do it.
