Dad Getting a Pacemaker?

Sorry I've been away, but we were down in CT doing an early Father's Day and then stayed on Monday because Dad had electrodes attached to his heart. His heart rate has been in the low 50s, causing lightheadedness (which is the reason his doctor hasn't been allowing him to drive). According to Amanda, who being a cardiac nurse would know, commonly a patient with Dad's symptoms is hooked up to a monitor and kept under observation for a couple of days to determine whether he needs a pacemaker. In Dad's case, though, he got electrodes implanted in his heart. We're not exactly sure why that's better, because things turned out not definitively. Instead of knowing whether he needed a pacemaker or not, or implanting a monitor so that further data could be gathered, Dad was sent home in the late afternoon and was told that he would need to come back to have the monitor implanted. So he'll need to be readmitted ... and have another procedure ... and what does this mean to questions like when he can drive again.

Anyway, much to discuss tomorrow.