Tinman556

Yes, that is very intuitive of you, I haven't shared that with many people because it is such a hard concept to express, but when I realized that my heart was gone I struggled for a while with the concept of my "self" and how much of me had been lost. All of the post op pain killers didnt help much with my inner philosophizing either.

Can confirm, am a robot.

There was a .42 mile kids run and one of my doctors did try to convince me that it may be a safer bet, but if I was going to fail I wanted to fail in tremendous fashion, not get beat by a bunch of snotty kids.

There are two batteries and the driver runs off of them alternately so that a battery switch out goes smoothly, I have 3 sets of batteries. During a driver switch out, from one machine to another, the heart does stop and it is a very unsettling feeling.

Yes, sleep is still an issue, and after I came home from my most recent hospital stay my wife had trouble sleeping because she had not been accustomed to it, so I set up my cot in the other room and slept on it for a couple of nights. (I didn't really mind, it was like camping, but I got major points for being sensitive to her needs.)