I had a congenital issue called intraseptal bridge of the LAD coronary artery....the widowmaker as they call it
It is basically that the artery is within the heart muscle and pumping chamber dangling and being squeezed with beats
Very prone to occlusion and poor patentcy from birth
Mine had essentially given out at 46 although I had felt compromised since late teens
My other coronary arteries were fine enough
I didn’t have a heart attack per se but my symptoms were profound and I doubt I would have lasted another 48 hours
Hence hearing a distinct repeated command not to take a pain pill and return to bed but rather to go get help 15 minutes away at 2am
They did not know my precise issue till surgery and I woke up 15 hours later knowing this somehow in twilight
It took 2 surgeries in 11 months to correct this....the first covered here....courtesy of Matt
Since then I feel fairly well though not 100 percent suffering a lifetime from birth of slow ventricular damage
Worse though is the lung scar tissue from two pop opens and subsequent healing of lung cavity
Inevitable
Symbicort or Advair help
In any event...still kicking and we had another baby a couple years later so I do cop to a vigor uptick at 50
I do well enough.....busy and work all the time and just spent 2 weeks in rockies and cascades at altitude
No complaints
Thanks to both of you and a special tulips hat tip again to Onyx
God bless
He had periodic spells of tachycardia his whole life, I often wonder how his heart would have held out if he had lived longer.
I had to smile at three specific things you wrote: Mention of your baby (no longer a baby) your scar (oh geeez...lol...doesn’t it suntan?) and those tulips. How sweet of you to remember them. I remember trying to choose “proper” flowers for a man’s man, and decided on those colorful tulips because to me they said, “Praise God & Happy LIFE.”