Navin323i
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Hello there Gents,
Before I share the Aero NYPD pics, I wanted to share my recent miracle with you all, and I definitely must thank you all for the nice wishes and prayers you sent my way.
It all started with me on a routine visit to my pacemaker doctor to have my pacemaker wirelessly diagnosed to ensure it's operating within normal parameters.
Doctor tells me that my heart is suffering from atrial fibrillation which is an arhythmia of the heart and that they will need to have me hospitalized and put to sleep so they can "shock" my heart back into normal beating rhythm.
So I was pretty worried about the procedure this time around, even though I've been thru much worse with surviving 5 open heart surgeries, however those times I was a single guy versus me being married now and having 2 little girls... I have a LOT more at stake now if something bad were to happen to me.
Anyhow, I had the shock procedure to my heart exactly one week ago, and I'm happy to say I'm still alive and the procedure was a success (only one shock to my heart was needed to bring it back into rhythm) and my heart is now beating strong at 50 beats per minute.
HOWEVER... before my heart was shocked, the doctors discovered that one of my 2 pacemaker wires that go from the pacemaker unit which is implanted under the skin below my left collarbone, thru a vein and to my heart where the 2 wires are anchored to the heart muscle... one of those wires is now fractured and can't supply electricity to my heart to allow it to beat properly. To remove a pacemaker wire is extremely risky, given that it has been inside my vein for close to 10 years so removing the wire could rupture the vein and cause severe internal bleeding.
So at this point I went to see a pacemaker surgeon last friday who had successfully implanted a defribillator in my father 6 years ago. He ran his tests on my pacemaker and had me run several laps down the hallway back and forth so he could test the pacemaker under physical stress, and sure enough he discovered that my heart has miraculously healed itself and no longer needs the pacemaker to beat on its own.
My doctors are quite shocked... my pacemaker was implanted after my last open heart surgery because of swelling that developed at the heart nodes where the electrical impulses travel to allow the heart muscle to contract and beat. Normally if someone were to regain their own heart rhythm then this would happen within a span of days/months, maybe even a year, but in my case it took 9 years for my heart to heal itself (funny considering 9 happens to be my favorite number).
So thru a lot of love, prayer, and best wishes from my family and friends, my heart has healed itself and no longer needs the pacemaker, so I no longer need to have the risky surgery to remove/replace the pacemaker wire inside me. The wires will be left inside me, assuming the pacemaker eventually gets removed from inside me... for now they will turn off the pacemaker once they run a few more tests on me. Miracles CAN happen, and for that I'm extremely thankful and grateful to be alive today so I can post for you all today on our amazing site.
Now, onto pics of the Aero NYPD jacket with the new Netherlands police buttons on the faux chest pockets...
I honestly believe God kept me alive to serve my wife and 2 little babies...
Before I share the Aero NYPD pics, I wanted to share my recent miracle with you all, and I definitely must thank you all for the nice wishes and prayers you sent my way.
It all started with me on a routine visit to my pacemaker doctor to have my pacemaker wirelessly diagnosed to ensure it's operating within normal parameters.
Doctor tells me that my heart is suffering from atrial fibrillation which is an arhythmia of the heart and that they will need to have me hospitalized and put to sleep so they can "shock" my heart back into normal beating rhythm.
So I was pretty worried about the procedure this time around, even though I've been thru much worse with surviving 5 open heart surgeries, however those times I was a single guy versus me being married now and having 2 little girls... I have a LOT more at stake now if something bad were to happen to me.
Anyhow, I had the shock procedure to my heart exactly one week ago, and I'm happy to say I'm still alive and the procedure was a success (only one shock to my heart was needed to bring it back into rhythm) and my heart is now beating strong at 50 beats per minute.
HOWEVER... before my heart was shocked, the doctors discovered that one of my 2 pacemaker wires that go from the pacemaker unit which is implanted under the skin below my left collarbone, thru a vein and to my heart where the 2 wires are anchored to the heart muscle... one of those wires is now fractured and can't supply electricity to my heart to allow it to beat properly. To remove a pacemaker wire is extremely risky, given that it has been inside my vein for close to 10 years so removing the wire could rupture the vein and cause severe internal bleeding.
So at this point I went to see a pacemaker surgeon last friday who had successfully implanted a defribillator in my father 6 years ago. He ran his tests on my pacemaker and had me run several laps down the hallway back and forth so he could test the pacemaker under physical stress, and sure enough he discovered that my heart has miraculously healed itself and no longer needs the pacemaker to beat on its own.
My doctors are quite shocked... my pacemaker was implanted after my last open heart surgery because of swelling that developed at the heart nodes where the electrical impulses travel to allow the heart muscle to contract and beat. Normally if someone were to regain their own heart rhythm then this would happen within a span of days/months, maybe even a year, but in my case it took 9 years for my heart to heal itself (funny considering 9 happens to be my favorite number).
So thru a lot of love, prayer, and best wishes from my family and friends, my heart has healed itself and no longer needs the pacemaker, so I no longer need to have the risky surgery to remove/replace the pacemaker wire inside me. The wires will be left inside me, assuming the pacemaker eventually gets removed from inside me... for now they will turn off the pacemaker once they run a few more tests on me. Miracles CAN happen, and for that I'm extremely thankful and grateful to be alive today so I can post for you all today on our amazing site.
Now, onto pics of the Aero NYPD jacket with the new Netherlands police buttons on the faux chest pockets...
I honestly believe God kept me alive to serve my wife and 2 little babies...
