Joanne is thankful for the opportunity to speak to another patient about a device.
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When they had mentioned I would need a defibrillator – a pacemaker defibrillator – her husband also had one put in, I think a year before so at least I had someone that would that talked to me and spoke to me about it. I knew of – its not so much that they hadn’t given me the information – it was that I knew someone else who had gone through it.
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