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On 8/31/2026 10:08 PM, Dave Smith wrote:

On 2026-08-31 9:34 p.m., Leonard Blaisdell wrote:

On 2026-08-31, Graham <g.stereo@shaw.ca> wrote:

I've used a Philishave since I started shaving but I occasionally have a >>> wet shave. I thought my Phili was not shaving as well so I looked for
new heads, only to find it was obsolete. One is supposed to replace the
heads every 2 years but I never have and it's at least 15 years old.
BTW, I take Xarelto, an anti-coagulent.

Me too. Tiny, red and turn your blood into water. It all started with an
A-Fib notification on my watch. They want to do valve replacement, but
I'm 80! 🤔

Open heart? If the  A-Fib doesn't kill you the open heart surgery might. Been there, done that, got the scars.  It's like being hit by a truck.

A-Fib can often be stopped with a cardioversion. It is electrical
shocks to get it beating correctly. Sometimes you only spend a few
hours at the hospital.
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On 2026-09-01, Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:

Open heart? If the A-Fib doesn't kill you the open heart surgery might. Been there, done that, got the scars. It's like being hit by a truck.

That's one option. The other is going through the femoral artery.
Something about a balloon? At any rate, I'm unmotivated. I've never had
a problem with my heart, and I'm 80!
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On Mon, 31 Aug 2026 22:08:36 -0400
Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:

On 2026-08-31 9:34 p.m., Leonard Blaisdell wrote:

On 2026-08-31, Graham <g.stereo@shaw.ca> wrote:

I've used a Philishave since I started shaving but I occasionally
have a wet shave. I thought my Phili was not shaving as well so I
looked for new heads, only to find it was obsolete. One is
supposed to replace the heads every 2 years but I never have and
it's at least 15 years old. BTW, I take Xarelto, an
anti-coagulent.

Me too. Tiny, red and turn your blood into water. It all started
with an A-Fib notification on my watch. They want to do valve
replacement, but I'm 80! 🤔

Open heart? If the A-Fib doesn't kill you the open heart surgery
might. Been there, done that, got the scars. It's like being hit by
a truck.

~ SO NOTED ~
sound advice likely
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On 1 Sep 2026 04:19:10 GMT, Leonard Blaisdell
<leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

On 2026-09-01, Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:

Open heart? If the A-Fib doesn't kill you the open heart surgery might.
Been there, done that, got the scars. It's like being hit by a truck.

That's one option. The other is going through the femoral artery.
Something about a balloon? At any rate, I'm unmotivated. I've never had
a problem with my heart, and I'm 80!

I hope you take the right decision. We're all too young to die, Leo!
--
Bruce
<https://i.postimg.cc/kGrR1tp8/orange-clown.jpg>
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On Mon, 31 Aug 2026 23:35:55 -0400
Ed P <esp@snet.n> wrote:

On 8/31/2026 10:08 PM, Dave Smith wrote:

On 2026-08-31 9:34 p.m., Leonard Blaisdell wrote:

On 2026-08-31, Graham <g.stereo@shaw.ca> wrote:

I've used a Philishave since I started shaving but I occasionally
have a wet shave. I thought my Phili was not shaving as well so I
looked for new heads, only to find it was obsolete. One is
supposed to replace the heads every 2 years but I never have and
it's at least 15 years old. BTW, I take Xarelto, an
anti-coagulent.

Me too. Tiny, red and turn your blood into water. It all started
with an A-Fib notification on my watch. They want to do valve
replacement, but I'm 80! 🤔

Open heart? If the  A-Fib doesn't kill you the open heart surgery
might. Been there, done that, got the scars.  It's like being hit
by a truck.

A-Fib can often be stopped with a cardioversion. It is electrical
shocks to get it beating correctly. Sometimes you only spend a few
hours at the hospital.

It's Canada, they're actually pushing MAID on their poor senior
Canucks.
He might have to drive down here for elective.
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On 1 Sep 2026 04:19:10 GMT
Leonard Blaisdell <leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

On 2026-09-01, Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:

Open heart? If the A-Fib doesn't kill you the open heart surgery
might. Been there, done that, got the scars. It's like being hit
by a truck.

That's one option. The other is going through the femoral artery.
Something about a balloon? At any rate, I'm unmotivated. I've never
had a problem with my heart, and I'm 80!

Good on you - onward to 90 then.

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On 2026-08-31 11:35 p.m., Ed P wrote:

On 8/31/2026 10:08 PM, Dave Smith wrote:

Me too. Tiny, red and turn your blood into water. It all started with an >>> A-Fib notification on my watch. They want to do valve replacement, but
I'm 80! 🤔

Open heart? If the  A-Fib doesn't kill you the open heart surgery
might. Been there, done that, got the scars.  It's like being hit by a
truck.

A-Fib can often be stopped with a cardioversion.  It is electrical
shocks to get it beating correctly.  Sometimes you only spend a few
hours at the hospital.

I have had cardioversion. The first time it didn't work so they had to
do it again a couple days later. That time it worked. They give you the Michael Jackson drug to knock you out for a minute. I had two doses of
the shock. I was not out completely for the second one and felt like I
had been kicked by a mule, but all of a sudden my heart rate dropped way
down. They can also do ablation which can by one by catheter like an angiogram. They freeze something near the valve.


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On 2026-09-01 12:19 a.m., Leonard Blaisdell wrote:

On 2026-09-01, Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:

Open heart? If the A-Fib doesn't kill you the open heart surgery might.
Been there, done that, got the scars. It's like being hit by a truck.

That's one option. The other is going through the femoral artery.
Something about a balloon? At any rate, I'm unmotivated. I've never had
a problem with my heart, and I'm 80!

I didn't think I had a problem with my heart either. I went to the
doctor about being tired and having a strange feeling in my chest which
was not pain. I was sent to an internist who sent me for an angiogram.
It turned out my left main coronary artery was almost completely
blocked. They were going to clean it out and insert a stent. It went
badly and I ended up with emergency bypass surgery. I almost didn't make
it.

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On 2026-08-31 10:19 p.m., Leonard Blaisdell wrote:

On 2026-09-01, Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:

Open heart? If the A-Fib doesn't kill you the open heart surgery might.
Been there, done that, got the scars. It's like being hit by a truck.

That's one option. The other is going through the femoral artery.
Something about a balloon? At any rate, I'm unmotivated. I've never had
a problem with my heart, and I'm 80!

My cardiologist told me that I'm nowhere near the stage where
I would need ablation.
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In article <EsqlS.25883$4HF4.10222@fx21.iad>, adavid.smith@sympatico.ca says...

On 2026-08-31 9:34 p.m., Leonard Blaisdell wrote:

On 2026-08-31, Graham <g.stereo@shaw.ca> wrote:

I've used a Philishave since I started shaving but I occasionally have a >> wet shave. I thought my Phili was not shaving as well so I looked for
new heads, only to find it was obsolete. One is supposed to replace the
heads every 2 years but I never have and it's at least 15 years old.
BTW, I take Xarelto, an anti-coagulent.

Me too. Tiny, red and turn your blood into water. It all started with an A-Fib notification on my watch. They want to do valve replacement, but
I'm 80! ?

Open heart? If the A-Fib doesn't kill you the open heart surgery might. Been there, done that, got the scars. It's like being hit by a truck.

At his age Leo is more likely to have it done by keyhole surgery,
which is minimally invasive with a swift recovery.


Janet UK
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On 2026-09-01 11:02 a.m., Dave Smith wrote:

On 2026-09-01 11:12 a.m., Graham wrote:

On 2026-08-31 10:19 p.m., Leonard Blaisdell wrote:

That's one option. The other is going through the femoral artery.
Something about a balloon? At any rate, I'm unmotivated. I've never had
a problem with my heart, and I'm 80!

My cardiologist told me that I'm nowhere near the stage where
I would need ablation.

I know two people who have had it done. In both cases it took weeks
before it actually started to work and apparently that is to be expected.

He told me that it doesn't always work anyway.
He did one of those treadmill stress tests and a carotid
ultrasound and found the results very re-assuring, telling me
that he didn't want to see me again unless something serious occurred.
And I'm older than Leo:-)
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On 2026-08-30, ItsJoanNotJoAnn webtv.net <user4742@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:

Leo, have you considered an electric razor? I'm guessing there are some brands that give a very close shave.

I have a couple of electric trimmers but not a shaver. I had one in the Seventies, but it wore out. One more picture of me in the Seventies,
then I'm done. Oh, and I've posted it before. Bruce did an AI with it.
Those were the days!

<Damn! Postimages.org is down!>
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