Perhaps this title, for some, is too strong or will scare you away from healthcare, but for those of us like me, who have survived heart attacks, heart surgery, cancer, and blood disorders, it is cooked and served up just about right.
All my life, I had been healthy and active and flirted with sickness in the winters by wearing T-shirts and flip-flops outside and not getting the “standard” flu shot but never saw the inside of a doctor’s office unless it was for my annual physical. And, I stayed that way until 2007, age 60, when I discovered that I had suffered a heart attack that severely reduced the left muscle to pump out blood due to my LAD artery being blocked 100% as well as an 80-90% blockage in the two other major arteries on the left side. Over the course of 2 years, I went to Presbyterian Hospital in NYC 3 times to have those arteries cleaned out and stints inserted.During the first angioplasty procedure, where cuts were made on my right and left legs, a stitch as put in both legs to hasten the recovery. The local anesthesia that the nurses had given me must have worn off because for about a minute, 30 seconds on each leg, I experienced this excruciating pain as a machine sutured my leg. There were 4 bursts of pain on each leg that lasted about 10 seconds of so, leaving me writhing in pain with clinched fists and watering eyes.
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