[GWN7]

You can't let what happened to others rule your life. Just because that happened to them doesn't mean it will happen to you and the worst thing you can do is worry about it.

Beginning of March I nearly died of a heart attack. My MI was totally non-typical to the point of that night I drove myself to the hospital and parked in the 15 minute emergency parking space because I didn't believe I could be having a MI and with 29 years as a EMT I have seen various MIs in all sorts of people. No history. Had a EKG two weeks before the event and nothing showed up on it. Lived what I considered a healthy life style with eating and exercise. Now if I eat any more plant material I think I'd be sprouting twigs when I poop.

The guy ahead of me that night at the heart center didn't make it off the operating table, but that wasn't me. I had 100% blockage in the main, 100% blockage on the right and (at the time what was thought) 80% blockage on the left (turned out to be 32%). When the ER surgeon installed the two stints in my main I could feel the blood starting to course thru my body and I felt great.

I could go on about the event and the complications that arose after and are on going and the two more opperations I have had but I won't. My advise is to:

Live- Do what makes you happy. Make others happy. If you can, laugh and most importantly make others laugh because when you cry you cry alone. When you laugh, everyone laughs with you.

Bruce