Got a Pacemaker installed.   

So I got me a pacemaker.   

59 years old and my heart had been beating perfectly my entire life woke up one morning and it was beating very erratically.   Had a ablation and woke up with a pacemaker.    Thought my flying career was over.  

90 days (waiting period) later I took a Bruce protocol stress test and a 24 hour Holter monitor had my doctor write a letter submitted to the FAA and 60 days later went back to my AMEi and had my second class medical back on a five-year special issuance.    The reason it was five years was that my AME could issue for five and every fifth year it had to go to cardiac board in Oklahoma City.     

Anyway I found out they were literally several thousand pilots out there with pacemakers and it wasn't really a big deal to the FAA.    Just have a few extra steps to jump through every year but doesn't seem that bad and for all intents and purposes I don't even know the pacemaker exists I do not feel it.    

Never give up never surrender.