Timmers wrote:
I have a pace maker and as I was leaving the hospital a technician (from the doctor's office who put the pace maker in), came into my hospital room and spent close to an hour programing an Apple Smart Phone, and then he explained the importance of keeping it with in 25 miles of me, and keeping it charged (plugged into an outlet). And then he left me with an instruction book.
I went to my cardiologist office several weeks later, I asked him why I hade an expensive Apple Smart Phone that 'talks' to my pace maker, (what sort of stories do they tell each other?), my question was basically did anyone expect me to 'learn' this silly toy and why was that important to me? Basically, it monitored my pace maker and that prompted me to ask why? The final result was that it would tell his office if I was alive and if there was a reason for him to get involved with me and my heart.
So now, I do two things, I leave the Apple Smart Phone plugged in on a shelf and I threw the unreadable instruction manual into the trash the day I got home from the office visit. I decided that I really have no business try to play at acting like I'm a doctor of Cardiology.
Perhaps you might just go back to wearing a watch. You could of course just do what I do, know that the cats that live outside, need to be fed at first light, and know a while after the sun goes down that I will need to go to bed soon (I never worry about it getting to late, the house cat comes and tells me when SHE has decided it's time for bed. She is a vary smart cat, funny, I've never seen her look at a watch or a cell phone...).
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Yup, one of my dogs knows when feeding time is with in 5 minutes. So with just him I know the time twice per day, 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m.