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22. GLad to hear it!

My case wasn't emergent. I had an MI 11 years earlier (at age 37! Yikes!) and got three stents put in. That was life changing. But at this point, I've been a cardiac patient for over a decade, and have seen my Cardiologist regularly the entire time.

I was feeling wrong (really the only way to describe it), and asked him for a referral to cardiac rehab (which I had done the first time around) because I wanted to get into better shape without worry. He suggested going to the cath lab first to see what's what. So we did that, all three stents are perfect, but hey, you have five other blockages. Here's the name of a good surgeon. Off to that consult, yep, you should do surgery, schedule something in the next month or two.

So the whole thing was on my terms, on my timetable, and I'd already made all sorts of life choices the decade earlier. That, plus a whole truckload of Xanax, and the whole thing was remarkably chill. And after I healed, I got to go to rehab!

Or more to the point, "Sure, you can go to rehab, but first, we're going to take you out back and beat the living hell out of you."