hey in the past couple of episodes i was complaining about how i was being mistreated
felt i was being mistreated at a big box store because of the calibration of their alarms uh
my pacemaker could set it in your mouth and i felt harassed so stay tuned there's an update
so
hello folks welcome back to pine meadows hobby farm i'm your host jerry hansen i
uh i showed a couple of episodes out of my frustration was and they were titled
how a um a disabled man was repeatedly harassed at a big box store here's the highlights of those
videos and explaining how i felt i was arrest so this just happened to me an hour ago i'm going to
share this with you and it's happened to me every time i go down and go through this for the past
year and it's constant harassment constant harassment so i go shop at this walmart store
and mind you i shop at many stores around the area other walmart stores if i'm in the neighborhood
costco is just in the other day hobby lobby a bunch of different retail outlets best buy
none of them give me the harassment that i'm subjected to at this store the harassment is
i'm subjected to detainment search embarrassment humiliation and because of what's happening i'm
also receiving physical body harm now you're asking what gives what's going on well you
know those detectors when you walk in the door or walk out the door if you have something that
you didn't pay for and they didn't deactivate it it sets up the alarm yeah one of those well
i usually don't buy anything of that nature because those are usually big ticket items and i
i look at thrift stores for big ticket items so i can buy cheaply
i don't buy it there at walmart i usually go there for paper towels like i did today
i set the alarm off going in to the facility i didn't even have anything yet
see that's what happens every time i come in to this place i come in and i go out and i set it off
so i ain't got my paper towels i came out
i pushed my cart through no alarm
i walked through i alarmed the ding system now the guy has to ask me to see my receipt now i'm being
right there at those um machines and uh i'm subjected to a search they're searching to see
what i've got that is setting off the alarms so we're going on a follow up uh kind of a research
um at walmart i was here yesterday and i came in through the tire department it didn't ring no it
did read entire department rang came out through the same entrance i'm using today it did not ring
went in through the grocery one the one i always go into and i constantly get
harassed and yes it rang and then i came out through i just bought
a chicken strip and i came out through this same entrance that i came out yesterday and it even
though it didn't pick me up going in it picked me up coming out and you'll hear the dialogue
i have a pacemaker my taste taker says
now to explain and go a little bit in depth this may be over the heads of some but i'll try to keep
it as simple as possible in the previous show on this subject i revealed to you guys i have
a pacemaker the pacemaker is what's setting it off that's not the problem well their sensitivity is
set to uh too low too high however they sense it you know because they need to adjust and calibrate
the sensitivity on this equipment down to the level to pick up their tracking devices in the
store not implantable medical devices and here's where it comes to be a problem for me personally
now i understand there's people with cochlear implants with pain stimulators in their uh torso
uh to stimulate pain in their body to stimulate their spine to keep it from being so painful
there's others with implanted medical devices that monitor and inject insulin for blood sugar
and i've talked to some people and yes they their devices do set those things off because they're
not calibrated correctly now here's where it gets tricky with a person with a pacemaker
i am a monitor cardiac rhythms monitor tech that's my vocation i work at in the hospital so now
it lends me some a little bit of credibility on what i know what i'm talking about here i also
went to college and got a degree in pursuing the nursing program so i have some i have some
information plus i have a pacemaker i work with cardiologists they know better than me but i know
what i'm looking at when i'm watching a a patient who has a pacemaker and that pacemaker is not
functioning appropriately and it can cause problems this is where it becomes a grave
concern for me being detained at those sensors i showed you in the handbook in the previous episode
that the handbook says we are not to linger at those sensors in libraries or retail sensors
security sensors were not to linger there there's a reason why they emit an electrical
magnetic field that interrupts the pacemaker's ability to sense and capture so what i'm saying is
this electromagnetic field confuses the pacemaker thinking that it can't it can't sense my heart
beating and if my heart is beating on its own and regular i go through it and i'm delayed at
that device now it's causing my pacemaker to not interpret my heart it just starts beating and it's
intrinsic rate itself so now my heart is beating irregularly
that's a problem i've seen this happen on the monitors and we have to intervene medically one
of the issues is i've seen at work is it can cause an r on t your cardiac rhythms consist of p q
r s t waves that's what they designated for measuring a cardiac rhythm so when you get an
r wave on a t wave that can launch a patient's heart into a one of maybe three deadly rhythms
potentially deadly or harmful rhythms one deadly rhythm is what we call torsades de pontus
uh that is uh it's french it means twisting of the points that needs immediate intervention immediate
intervention also a pa it can cause a patient to go into ventricular fibrillation or v-tac
that also needs immediate attention a patient will become symptomatic and perhaps become unconscious
because of the episode if their heart sustains i'm explaining this to you guys because
this is important to me this is really important to me and it's important for
the message to get out to everybody and all retailers who are using these devices
get your proper training at calibrating these devices appropriately because you're bringing
harm to people the community who have disabilities and have medical implants especially pacemakers
it can also cause atrial fibrillation and when it's my heart is being confused at that moment
while i'm being detained in within the sensor area my heart is doing that so if you have what
happens is you have four chambers in your heart you have the left and right atrial chambers
and you have the left and right ventricular chambers and your heart pumps like this it
squeezes all the blood out down into your eight ventricles and then your ventricles
squeeze the blood out and goes out to your body or goes to your lungs one side of the heart
deals with the lungs the other side of the heart deals with all of the rest of your body now those
who are in charge of setting these devices or calibrating these devices
obviously don't have a clue on the harmful effects they can have on an individual my question is
how many customers have collapsed at those devices while they were being detained and here's one of
the reasons why and this is what i'm afraid for me too because i have a pacemaker what happens
is if your blood doesn't squeeze out from the heart all the way you've got a little pool of
blood in the corner of your heart that begins to coagulate then when your heart recovers
you now have a blood clot that depends on what side of the heart you're on it'll either go to
the lungs which will cause a pulmonary embolism which causes shortness of breath and chest pain
another one is it ejects you know the other half of the heart it goes out to the peripherals
your arms your legs your brain a blood clot going to your brain can cause a stroke
that's why i'm bringing this to the attention of you guys be aware retail outlets who are using
these devices also need to be aware yeah so what i did i reached out and sent a um links to those two
shows to their headquarters back in bentonville arkansas and then i also reached out by phone
because of covid they can't meet with anybody and i spoke to the person in charge at the local store
and ex tried to explain my my grievance and so i ended up giving this person the
links to the two shows they were able to look at them and figure out from there what to do next
so since the phone call i paid a couple of visits to the store one a visit was i didn't
record it i just noticed that the sensors were not going off and then today i went through
and i walked through two entrances and they did not go off so apparently they
heard me and it's it's wonderful to know that they're really taking into consideration
those of us who have these disabilities and that they didn't know i'm not blaming
them i'm not faulting them they just did not know the dangers and ramifications
of having their sensors set too high now this has to go throughout the whole retail industry
and everybody needs to be made aware of because this has a potential threat
of well it could kill somebody um it's just that serious but thank you for listening to my plea
i am a happy shopper now thank you that's all i have to say about that thank you i'm jerry hanson
your host from pine meadows hobby farm we're a frugal homestead tucked up in the cascade ranges
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kindness and i also published it on social media to try to get a little bit more impact that's
that's like and alert people like me saying you guys if you have this problem this is what
you need to be aware of i'm hoping helping people just be kind about it okay because
they don't know people need to know we'll see you guys bye-bye
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