-=> Quoting Bill Swisher to Nancy Backus on 04-28-20  07:44 <=-
 -=> Quoting Nancy Backus to Michael Loo <=-
 
 NB>> is how they can get your vitals, or check heart and lungs, over the
 NB>> phone.. Richard's most recent PCP appointment was done over the

 BS> When I had my pacemaker put in they shipped me a piece of electronics
 BS> that allowed them to remotely download the data from it.  Included was
 BS> a scale and a BP cuff that worked with it, bluetooth I suspect.  Anyhow
 BS> I could give them a weight, BP, heart rate on demand.  But no O2 level.

That sort of equipment makes remote monitoring a lot more doable... My
neighbor didn't have the scale or BP cuff, just something that let the
office remotely get the data out of the pacemaker...  Richard doesn't
have a pacemaker, though, so no need for (or way to do) remote
monitoring of any sort...

 BS> When I got the new pacemaker the old equipment was incompatible...so
 BS> they shipped me another set.  I had the old one in the trunk to bring
 BS> back to Anchorage.  It got jettisoned in Denver during the border
 BS> kerfuffle and is now in a landfill somewhere after the company told me
 BS> to discard it.  The final solution to the car was to ship it to
 BS> Anchorage, which meant a lot of the stuff in it had to find other
 BS> means of transportation, some's still in Denver.
 
How this virus has complicate life as we knew it....!!  All sorts of
things that were relatively straightforward are now increasingly
convoluted and complicated.... So many things we just blithely took for
granted, too....

 NB>> ... My computer caught the Vivaldi virus.  It's baroque now.

 BS> Ahhh...I like Vivaldi!  I have 13 CD's with him listed on it, not
 BS> necessarily only him.

I like Vivaldi, too.... along with other Baroque composers... :)

ttyl       neb

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