My fil was just diagnosed with a 2:1 heart block. They’re installing a pacemaker. It appears to be a 3rd degree block. Can someone explain what this means? Everything online is geared to medical professionals and extremely hard to decipher.
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I’m going to stick closer to the sub’s name.
Let’s say you and I want to a) advertise our love of Mac & Cheese and b) annoy the shit out of everyone around us. So I buy a metronome (little ticky time thing for musicians), and on the beat, I yell “MAC”. But you can’t see the metronome, so just just listen for me and then you hear me and yell “CHEESE”. Mission accomplished.
In a 2:1 block, you only yell “CHEESE” every second time. In a 3rd degree, you often don’t yell it at all. I’m doing my part, but you’re losing your hearing, so you don’t get triggered regularly enough. The pacemaker gives you a hearing aid so you can now yell reliably after I yell, thus allowing us to annoy people with our love of Mac & Cheese for many more years.
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