From My Heart to Yours... (part 2)

I went to a cardiologist after my regular doc said I was healthy and fine; nothing else to do or check.  I did not feel good about this, so had my heart checked.  Had a 20% blockage in one artery and slight calcification in a neck artery.  Got put on statins; added the baby aspirins; inspired

to improve all habits (heart health ones, anyway) and am glad to know I am trying to do all I can to counter the family history ("Thanks, Dad!").  In meantime, as docs learn more, I get more benefit and hopefully avoid the D word, as well as having my pretty chest cracked open.

Bock, bock!  Don't be no chicken!  Do what you gotta do.  The life you help or save may be yours, or even someone you love.  I also bought an AED (Automatic External Defibrillator) which I keep in my car.  I would not want someone to "go down" at my office and kick the bucket when I might have helped save their life.  I heard the other day of a fender bender car wreck when the guy who got hit had a heart attack and the guy in the following car (I guess that's hittor and hittee?) had an AED and saved the guy!

When I got my cute little red AED, a  nice 911 guy working in our warehouse, showed me how to use it.  Now, no one usually passed by my office at lunch back then, but that day, when he was laying in the floor with his shirt off and I was loosening his pant's belt and "pretending" to shave his chest hair (so the paddles would make contact), don't you know that EVERYONE came by and stopped and stared and stared and stared.  

Laughter, that's the best medicine!  

The doctor is now out...to lunch!