UPDATE:
Surgery scheduled for Thursday has been cancelled. I had my mom ask my dad's main heart doctor some very pointed questions. He in turn consulted one of the other doctors and the surgeon and essentially put a stop to the procedure. I am not clear on the chain of events but the surgeon's attitude was "Hey they told me take it out, so I was taking it out". This doctor knew, as I did, that this is no ordinary or benign surgery and should not be taken lightly. I'm not directly involved enough to know who is in charge of what, but the bottom line, and good news, is that he will not have a lead removed and will definitely not have his pacemaker removed.
Now we just need to find some doctor that is willing to really figure out what the cause of his crippling fatigue is.
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