Sunday, July 04, 2010

Heart attack...

Mom had a heart attack on the 25th of June. Since then, I've been mostly here at UAB. Despite not having any prior symptoms that would have warned us of advancing heart disease, she had 3 vessels with 90 to 95 percent blockage. And significant blockage along the length of each artery. The only artery they could stent wasn't the one where the damage occurred.
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  I t is very common to feel a strong, even urgent, need for solitude and to turn inward after a cardiac arrest . Surviving such a life-alt...

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