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Congratulations Fire559 on your return to full duty. You are now part an exclusive club of firefighters who have return to work with an AVR. It proves that it does not end a career. Only a few of use have made that choice to return. It should be a proud moment for you. You beat the odds in more...

Kev, I have been a Sheriff’s Deputy and Firefighter as a career over the years, but that was before my surgery. After my surgery I was able to return to my fire job. It was a fight to get back on but it is possible. Do what makes you happy and want to go to work. I have been in my career for 28...

To all those in Colorado my heart and prays goes out to. I have felt their pain before. If you want to keep track of the fire here are two web site to look at. The first is the USFS site for the Colorado Spring fire: http://www.inciweb.org/incident/2929/ The second is a site that reports...

On Monday, two weeks shy of my one year anniversary of my AVR; I got dizzy and ended up in the hospital for a day and half. It started a few days earlier when I noticed that I had a sore throat. By Monday I finally got in to see my GP to get some medicine. By then my throat looked like a war...

Allisoninoz, It is good to see that you are coming to the US. As you read by the other post we are having some weather coming through over the weekend. The weather people say it will pass and clear out next week and start to warm up. The park received a few inches over night but don’t be...

Happy birthday Dick. You give us all hope and knowledge. Keep ticking away and have a great birthday. Jim

To all Thanks for the great posts. As an update, my first week has been thankfully slow. I only had one house fire and a bicycle accident. Unfortunately the bike accident was a coworker who just retired last week. He is going to be ok, but he is in the hospital. It is just goes to shows again...

Great informational video :thumbup:

here you go Julian. I hope that it does not crash your computer. :biggrin2:

Yesterday was a very long day for me but it ended up being a great day, I have been released, by my cardiologist back to full firefighting duties. For those who have missed my occasional posts, June 1st I passed out at the eye doctors, 90 hours later I was in surgery having my bicuspid valve...

Lyn, I am still on light duty, so the issue of being on Coumadin has not been brought up yet. But the way I see it, the issue of the Coumadin won’t be a top concern. Most injuries that I see are heat related, twisting or lifting ones. Cuts injuries are a minor problem in today’s fire service...

Thanks everybody, the shock of the news is starting to wear off and I am starting to sort it all out. I spent yesterday in a fog thinking about what the cardiologist said. It has been a lot to deal with over a short time. Obviously it has major life changing implications. I did not get any work...

I am now four months post op. I am working out about an hour of cardio exercise four to five times a week and feeling pretty good over all. Now last Friday my cardio wanted me to wear a heart monitor for 24 hours to watch my heart rate. He was thinking that my resting heart rate was too high...

Cam, I agree with Laurie, 12 hour shifts on the street, great job. When I worked in law enforcement, I thought 10 hours was a long day. 12 hours, what a guy. It sounds like you are back in the action and loving it. I bet the adrenaline is feeling pretty good again. :thumbup: Right now, I am...

Wade, If your doctors won’t do it, I would check into a physical therapy office that can do a cardio rehab in your area on your own. Before I started, I heard nothing but good thing about rehab and I wanted to get my old body back fast as I could. Your doctor can write a prescription and get...

Wgreene, I am about 4 weeks ahead of you in my rehab. My cardiologist has increased my cardio to an hour a session and more strength training. The therapist is watching my upper body so that I don’t over do it especially with the chest area. They are worried about doing damage to my chest...

Themalteser, I relate to this article. I came very close to a sudden death because of my AV failure in a very short period of time and an undiagnosed BAV. I passed out at an eye doctor appointment while I was getting my eyes checked. I was told by my Cardio it was because of the extreme...

Steve, Moo La La, I will have to try the upside down fix when it has a problem again. It is Murphy’s Law when I posted the problem; it went away and has not come back, yet. :rolleyes: Unfortunately, I had to miss rehab on Thursday and I have not been able to exercise since. My work got...

Greg, An AED is only programmed to activate when it reads specific heart rhythms like A-fib. They won’t shock if they read a rhythm that is different from the programming. If it reads a shock or artifact from the ICD, it will not shock. The ICD is most likely the better device to shock the...