Pacemaker news - and good news at that!

So, it seemed at one point that I might have to have my pacemaker replaced, adding another surgery to the process.  Well, I talked with my cardiologist and his office said that the new kind of pacemaker does exist.  However, it's not a easy as just swapping them out.  Apparently the leads that go into the heart to create the artificial beat/rhythm correction heal to the heart muscle, and that removing those leads comes with a lot of risk - more than would be wise for proceeding with such task.  But, he told me that there are some people at the university hospital in Portland that have developed a method of shielding the pacemaker and its leads in a way that makes an MRI possible.  

My interpretation of this, is that it's one less surgery and the neurosurgery can therefore happen sooner.  Which, of course brings up the $64,000 question:  What did the neurosurgeon have to say today?  That I would get a call tomorrow.  When I talked with the medical assistant, I passed on the info about the pacemaker and asked that that info also be passed on to the doc.  So, here's to tomorrow.  Tomorrow.  I love ya, tomorrow....