What are you drinking right now?

[Angel]

It's amazing the difference it makes. I've seen people with no energy and pale in color and then they get their pacemaker and they are a new person. Great little devices they are. They have really simplified the surgery on installing them now. They can install one using local anasthesia.

Getting my father in law to get one was like pulling teeth. He kept getting second, third, and fourth opinions. All of the first four doctors said he needed a pacemaker. The fifth one said he probably could get by not having one with the right medication. So he went without one. He would constantly dose off and that was scary because he was driving. Finally he gave in and had one installed and he felt so good he didn't know why he didn't do that to begin with. From our point of view he was not well but he was stubborn and didn't think he was as sick as what we were seeing.

I had no clue how sick I was until I got it, and suddenly had all this energy. It's been done under local anesthetic for years. I've had a total of 5 surgeries so far...3 pacer, 1 set of new leads and a pocket reassignment. Have about 2 years left on the current unit.

[Nitro Express]

I had no clue how sick I was until I got it, and suddenly had all this energy. It's been done under local anesthetic for years. I've had a total of 5 surgeries so far...3 pacer, 1 set of new leads and a pocket reassignment. Have about 2 years left on the current unit.

An out of synch heart doesn't circulate the oxygen effectively enough and since the brain is at the highest part of the body it suffers oxygen starvation. The result is fatigue, dozing off, and even passing out. It's kind of the same effect as pulling G's in an airplane in a way but not as dramatic. Race car drivers have to have good hearts because they are pulling G's going around the track. The G's pull the blood from your head. I don't think most people know how much strain being in one of those cars puts on the body and heart. The more G's the harder your heart has to work to keep blood in your head.

If your heart isn't doing the normal job, it's like you are pulling G's doing nothing. You get fatigued. I'm amazed hearts last as long as they do with as much work they do. One reason you learn how to breath in the martial arts or in weight lifting is to maximize the oxygen in the blood at the opportune time so the muscles have the energy they need. It's amazing how much weaker breathing wrong makes you. That oxygen gets used up quickly. In fact the better you know your body the less fatigued you can be and that can give you the edge on your competition.

[Angel]

Really? Geez, almost half my life with a pacemaker and I had no clue that you can pass out if your blood isn't oxygenated enough.

So that's why I used to have all those dizzy spells, fainting and constant fatigue. Thank God I joined the Army so I could learn this....

[envy_me]

Not to scare you but my father in law had similar symptoms. It turned out to be he had an irregular heart beat causing low blood pressure and a pace maker was the fix. You might want to have it checked out by a doctor just to be safe even if you feel better now.

Nah, it's probably just a little cyber baby :-)

[Nickdfresh]

[envy_me]

Aaaaw :-) Really

[Nickdfresh]

Yeah, on sale and better than Starfucks...

[envy_me]

Yeah, on sale and better than Starfucks...

That's my moms favourite coffee :-)

[envy_me]

Maybe I'll take some Baileys tonight :-)

[sadaist]

Coffee from Circle-K in my own special steel travel coffer thing. Love it! I add 3 sugars, 2 regular creams, and 1 flavored cream. Otherwise the flavored creams overpower. I like my coffee to taste like coffee with just a hint of one of the flavors.

I avoid hazelnut because it is just way too strong. Same with vanilla.

I like the caramel flavored one.

Favorite is in a green container and it's Irish Cream flavored.

[DLR Bridge]

a newcastle mini keg .... we need pics ...or an invite

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Pretty nifty device compliments of Santa. The only kegs available are Heineken, Heineken Light & Newcastle. Hopefully more brands will join in.

(still can't figure out how to post pics large)

[VetteLS5]

That's what we drink around here in our Kerig. Good stuff.

[VetteLS5]

Soon to be having some Knob Creek with a splash of coke to sip around the firepit and wait for the snow to arrive.

[Nitro Express]

Soon to be having some Knob Creek with a splash of coke to sip around the firepit and wait for the snow to arrive.

You are going to be watering down that fine bourbon with coke? I rarely mix anything. If I have good booze I drink it straight. Cocktails were invented during prohibition to mask the nasty taste of the bathtub rot gut. Why age it in a keg if you are just going to candy it up?

[Nitro Express]

Nah, it's probably just a little cyber baby :-)

Going to pop out a little R2D2 in a few months?