They put in the pacemaker and now he just recently had a new
battery put in--his leads were still good (10 years later). He was told he only needed the
pacemaker due to having 3 issues, (one was a hole in his heart). Anyway--whats odd though is everything I read says 2nd degree usually and 3rd degree always requires a pacemaker. His 20 bpm seemed to come out of nowhere one day. I guess inspite of the way I hate drugs and invasive stuff--if I were 3rd degree-I would get the pacer.