Steve's last lesson. (my youngest son's death)

[DFW]

41. I am still alive now because I learned that lesson early

My dad's parents died of heart attacks before they reached 70 years old. I read up on symptoms, and my employer insists on yearly physicals. Blood tests revealed elevated cholesterol decades ago, and warned me to read up on danger signs, and take counter-measures if they showed up. Eventually, in 2004, I started having what I recognized to be danger signs. I sought out a cardiologist immediately, and he recognized that I was in acute mortal danger. Only due to my low blood pressure was I still alive at that point.

Within 72 hours of the first visit, I was resting in a hospital bed with my newly inserted stents keeping my coronary arteries open. If I hadn't done that, I wouldn't have lived to see May Day, 2004.

Take any and all danger signs seriously. Take it from one who has been there. You might not get a second warning.