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   danny burstein to J.D. Baldwin   
   Re: Gene Hackman,95, & wife Betsy Arakaw   
   09 Mar 25 15:14:46   
   
   From: dannyb@panix.com   
      
   In  INVALID_SEE_SIG@example.com.invalid (J.D.   
   Baldwin) writes:   
      
   [snip]   
   >"Like being kicked by a horse" is how I have heard it described.  I   
   >once did CPR on a dead guy and as we were switching guys doing chest   
   >compressions, the dead guy spasmed violently enough that he knocked   
   >over a piece of equipment.  Only then did someone point out the small   
   >bulge of what obviously (by then) was his "pacemaker"[1].  He was just   
   >chonky enough that it didn't stand out on his chest.  It was surreal.   
      
   >[1] Not a pacemaker, actually, though everyone casually refers to them   
   >    that way.  It was an implantable defibrillator.  Sometimes the   
   >    device does both things.   
      
   Dammit, so you're one of the people keeping Dick Cheney alive...   
      
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