I skipped the meeting, but the Memos showed that "Michael Koblic"
wrote on Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:55:08 -0800 in
rec.crafts.metalworking :
AL A wrote:
In order to observe and celebrate the positive outcome of Don's recent
medical procedures, I would like to share a little project that I
completed a recently. (Drum roll, please....)Presenting the amazing,
one-of-a-kind..........

.....DEFIBRILLATOR COFFEE TABLE!!!!!!:


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...d/IMG_2622.jpg

That is a real, but old defib machine. It was actually working* when
I got it out of an old barn, where it had been stored for many years for
some reason.


That one would be kind of hard to implant. However...

I remember a lady who did not want to have one of them new-fangled
pacemakers implanted. The old one worked for her just fine. It was a box,
not unlike the one in the picture (smaller of course :-) which was attached
to her waist by a belt. The whole thing was powered by Duracell batteries.
She was pacing- dependent so we (and others) always asked the same question;
"How do you change the batteries?"

The answer was "Very quickly!"

LOL.

I had an SO with a "valve job". When it was quiet, I could hear
her heart "clicking". Could tell to some degree her mental state,
as much as it was reflected in her pulse. But the times when I would
have liked to know, things were usually too noisy to hear that little
clicking sound. Sigh.

"This is not a brouhaha, this is Science!"

pyotr

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