This blog is being written so that I can have one more chance of figuring out how it came to this. How I suffered a heart attach of the sort that kills three out of four men of a certain age. How cardiology has advanced since 1967, when my father died. How I lived, and, with the addition of an Implanted Cardiac Device, I'll probably keep on going for a decade or two, as long as I don't step in the path of an oncoming bus.
Genetic presdisposition is the #1 cardiac risk factor. If you're like me and one near relative--in my case, my father, died of sudden cardiac arrest at the age of 40, you ought to watch for the other factors and not let them into your life.
That means smoking (no problem there, as I always looked at the tobacco companies as being responsible for my father's early exit), a sedentary life (guilty, after a certain point anyway), corpulence (again, guilty), and generally leading a stressful life, which I am guilty of only sometimes.
So here's my story.
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