@verdine I guess so! Congratulations on getting to your 94th year, sounds as though you had some help getting there from your pacemaker, and definitely it improved your quality of life.

You've had pacemakers long enough to be able to attest to the unintrusive nature of these devices, if your experiences are like mine, you can't feel it, though it's obviously got a life of its own and doesn't just take up real estate in your chest. But you can't feel it, often you can't see any evidence of a pacemaker, and you can easily forget you have one.

But I have a question. You mention that all your cardiologist/pacemaker clinic visits are remote, via video appointments so you don't need to make trips to see either the doc or the pacemaker clinic. You mention that pacemaker adjustments can be made during those video visits. It was my understanding that any adjustments to a pacemaker must be made in the pacemaker clinic by a pacer technician, adjustments cannot be made remotely or via video call. This, as I understand it, was more to consider the protection of the patient from possible hacking attempts that could disrupt the pacemaker's functions, than the inability to make those changes remotely. I'd understood that the wireless/bluetooth range of the pacemaker monitor they use to test the pacemaker and change settings was only in the range of a few feet so couldn't be used any further distance than that. They used to place a device over the person's pacemaker in the clinic which transmitted pacemaker information to that monitor, and adjustments could be made then. The pacemaker clinic I attend now has the pacemaker and the monitor communicate wirelessly so no more device over the pacemaker.
So has something changed that can now allow pacemaker adjustments to be made with remote visits? Have you actually had some adjustments to your pacemaker that way?
Thanks, Mary