Dear Family, Friends and Associates,

Thank you so much for your love and support going into this unexpected emergent situation with my heart last week.  I don't have the words to adequately express my gratitude for all the kindnesses you sent. It has really, really helped~

On the healing front, I'm back from UCLA Medical Center and on the mend back at home now after surgery last Friday... also off the narcotic pain killers so I can put two words together again without slurring and finally answer your e-mails...can't drive for 2 weeks and have to hold off on weightlifting for 6 weeks while all my new parts settle in and lock down...

In Brief:My heart has a rather big electrical problem from a birth defect that has grown much worse and can cause sudden death (of which I've had some very close calls as of late) so it needed an electrical solution to keep me on the planet....

so, what I've got installed now is a 'difribulator/pacemaker' that's very sophisticated... it can "jumpstart" me if I have a sudden death event, or "pace me" if I get close to one in the hope that it won't have to give me the "big jolt"... 

Honestly, it'll take some getting used to physically & emotionally...
but I think it'll come in handy for warming coffee or the next time my car won't start!.... ;)


"Electric" Charles 
Author, Charles Hunt's Diet Evolution: "Eat Fat and Get Fit!"


original notice:
Dear Family, Friends and Associates,
>
> I've started having a bunch of abnormal heart arrhythmias in the last 6
> months that put me at a big risk for sudden death. Seems my heart birth
> defect IHSS (Idiopathic Hypertrophic Subaortic Stenosis), which knocked
> me down when I was 24, has worsened quite a bit.
>
> I had a long arrhythmia last week while sitting on a couch visiting with
> a friend that was recorded on a digital monitor I was wearing.  Seems I
> scared the Dr's really good with that one, so they're going to implant a
> defribulator to shock me from the inside if my heart goes into this
> abnormal rhythm, or pace it (pacemaker)if it goes too slow.
>
> They actually wanted me in the hospital already for the procedure, but I
> was too overwhelmed at first with it all and wanted to talk with them
> more (later today). I go in Friday for the implant and should come home
> sometime Saturday.
>
>
> Guess that means I'll have to give up the nude book cover shots...;)
>
>
> I think I'll be back on line later next week~
>
> Till then, you rascals stay out of trouble!
>
>
> Charles
> Author, Charles Hunt's  <http://www.charleshunt.com> Diet Evolution