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Join Date: Dec 1969
Location: chula vista ca usa
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Thanks everyone for the thoughts. I think mine is probably genetic or predisposed if you will? When asked about family history I say my father and grandfathers died in their 90s when their hearts stopped, same with my mother who had a stroke when she was 82, past the age when it would be a shock? My risk factors, as they say, have all been controlled since the 70s when I quit drinking and smoking. I'll be 69 in a couple days and as I told the doctors assistant when doing the preop interview, I can go into this happy knowing I might not wake up. She looked puzzled and I said I had done good things and bad things, gave life to children and killed some bad guys who probably really needed it, showed junior engineers what is the right way and won at everything I had competed at even not intentionally trying to win. So I considered my life pretty well full filled and said to proceed. She was surprised I was as calm and ready as I was and I said well if I come out of all this then I figure there is still more for me to do yet.
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