Great Meeting

We need to send out a BIG thank you to our guests Dr. Katara and Tara for giving us all such great information. Dr. Katara gave us a huge amount of information about sleep apnea and BiPap machines or "the sleeping pill" as Hector described his bipap. Dr. Katara has agreed to come back any time and talk to us about anything neurological...so get your brains working and come up with some good ideas. Thanks Tara for all the great information about the medications we all take...she did a great job for being a nervous....sorry Kevin that you didn't get to talk but we look forward to your kick off of MONTHLY meeting in January...the complete list of dates will be coming SOON!! and congratulations to Tommy for being alive today because he received a shock last week!!! Glad your here Tommy : ) Happy New Year Pocono Shockers! Mary Grace, Billy, Sue and Paulie

December 30th Meeting

We are looking forward to our next meeting December 30th...not October 28th like the mailing said, sorry about that!! This meeting St Jude will be here with us along with Dr Sedani who is going to talk about sleep apnea, and we will have a pharmacist from the hospital here to talk about your medications. Dr P may not be able to join us for this meeting hopefully he will be with us in February...we will let everyone know if any of the meetings need to be cancelled due to bad weather...hope to see everyone December 30th...

October 28th Meeting

Thanks everyone for coming to the meeting it was great! Our group keeps growing it was nice to meet new people. We want to thank Dr Sheka for always being there to fill in when Dr P is unable to make it...sorry Mike that the shock alarm isn't there yet...Chris did a good job explaining the new vibratory alarm for when low battery. I passed along your lists of medications to the pharmacy so that when we meet again in December the pharmacist will have lots of info for you all. Our next meeting is scheduled for December 30th as always if you have any questions or concerns you can always contact us on the website or give us a call at 570-422-8393-thanks and hope to see you in December-Billy, Mary Grace, Sue and Paul

October 28th Meeting

Our next meeting is just around the corner October 28th we hope to see everyone there and hope you all bring some interesting topics for us to look into for our meetings next year. This meeting Howie, Kevin or a newbie Chris will be here from St Jude (yes Mike you can ask him about the alarm also!!!) we are hoping that Dr Joshi will be here he is one of our EP doctors and of course Dr P will be here to answer any questions you might have. We met with our reps and Dr P to plan next year's agenda and we are VERY happy to announce that we have a rep scheduled for each one of the MONTHLY meetings!!! We hope to see you all here on October 28th-Billy, Mary Grace, Sue and Paulie

Great Meeting!

We had a successful Shockers meeting last night! Over 20 people were in attendance and as usual the questions were great. Lynne did a great job with the healthy eating education. Just remember about portion control with your fist size! Chad from Guidant did a great job showing and teaching about lead review. He also had some props to pass around so it went very well.
We voted about increasing our meetings to once a month instead of bi-monthly. The vote overwhelmingly went towards having the meetings every month. We will not be able to obtain the room every month until January. So that will be great starting in January! We feel this will also prove as a great oppurtunity for you guys to take some more of the reins at the meetings with Dr. P not there and possibly reps not always available. It should be a great thing going forward for our group! So remember the next meeting is on Oct 28th and we hope to see you all there! And also remember we are always available and here for you if you need anything or have a question about anything.

Upcoming Meeting!

Hey everyone! Sorry for the lack of site upkeep lately. We will do better in the future I promise!. We just wanted to remind you that our next meeting is this Wednesday at 6PM. We hope you all will attend because we will be talking about a topic for our future support group meetings. Lynne from dietary will be our special guest speaker this month. As always, Dr. P will be there to field any questions as well as Chad from Guidant talking our the leads. We hope to see you all there and can not wait to talk to you!

Great Meeting!

Our last meeting on the 25th of Feburary was one of our best yet with a great turnout and participation between group members. We had an issue with getting the cholesterol tests done with the beepers going off, but overall everything went well. Dr. P started us off with going over the basics of why you might have a 1,2, or 3 lead ICD and the differences in what they do. Chad from Guidant then delved into the more personal, but still important realm of sex with your ICD. He basically said totalk to your doctor, and treat it like an exercise. you know where your heart rates should be when you are exercising, so just keep that in mind with your heart rate during sex and you should be fine! Also, if you do get shocked while in contact with your partner, they will not get shocked also. the most they would feel is the slightest of tingling, but would not absorb a shock so do not worry and have fun!
We are really looking forward to our April meeting and the participation on the board here has been great! Remember that we will be discussing stress management with Jill Howell and Rick Uter from Medtronic will be here to talk about "Twiddlers". And don't froget to pay attention because we will have the Quiz in June for a nice prize!!

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