I have to deal with my heart disease one day at a time. All this started when I was 30 and I had just had a heart attack I did not know that even though I knew that I was alive but they could not find me blood pressure at that time and so they had to send me upstairs to take a stat echocardigram and they found out why they could not find my blood pressure it was because there was so much fluid around the extremeities that they wind up putting me in the hospital. After that I took one day at a time. And I thank God for every minute every second and every hour and every day that I am alive.

SubrinaP, I read your post from Feb 22 ,I feel where you are coming from and I hope by now you feel much different, I had to learn to live for life and not live to die ,we have no control over that ,my uncle is in his 80 s and with a defibrillator implant for many years and no one knew it ,so concentrate on living and being able to njoy life as you can keep your faith strong as I do & a lot of us do ,my inspiration for life come from Carynwebb, IveyRose and BarbB these ladies has dealt with so much & still here to teach us anything is possible, stay positive and keep it pumping

The one thing that is on my mind is that we never know when it is our turn to die. And that is the reason why I know that we are not given tomorrow so I live my best life. If I could do what I do which is clean the house and walk a mile and stop worrying over other things then I will be alright.

After surgery was rough and for the first two plus mos. I was back at the gym at the 4 mos mark. However, i had a surgeon who, at 4 weeks, said “I can’t give you long term” which was a bit traumatic. The cardiologist was furious and i discovered (after the surgeon tried to set up another appointment) that he had a reputation for this. His nurse almost begged me to keep my appointment and to tell him what I thought…my family doc said “forget it “ and move on. The nurse told me i was not the first person he did this to. He has since left the Ottawa Heart Institute! We are vulnerable to comments like that. I am fine now and still at the gym. Surgery was 2015. I will live til i die…obviously! Lol

Blayne

The only way that I can deal with heart disease is to take one day at a time.