All Comments on 'Heart Attack'

I'm glad you made it.

A first rate account,hope things are easier now ,from your recent excellent submissions I would say they are .

Thank you for your story, I am sure it will help many people. Keep yourself and your family safe. I wish you many more years of life and love.

I think this is first rate ,its only when we are near to dying that we know what living is all about.I had to have several TIA,S before I got the message,and stopped being a complete madman obsessed with material things that really didnt matter.Ihope you hasve fully recovered ,by the excellent standard of your submissions I would think you have.RegardsJIM.

...died from a heart attack at age 45. I was luckier than he, I have survived twelve years since my first heart attack at age fifty-three. Good short story.

I had two before I learned. like the reader I also had Tia sure got my attention. I got truough Korea back in 52 and I thought nothing could hurt mr.

thank you for sharing

What was that all about? What no cheating wife or incest orgy with Mum , sis & Wifee

Just your plain ordinary garden type Heart Attack! ★ ★ ★ WOOF!

Oh on serious note A heart attacks is no laughing Matter!

I had my heart attack at 59, and my biggest issue was not being able to walk (lack of blood flow to them). I was laying in the ER room when the doctor told me I was having a heart attack. Mine was a "widow maker", in that I didn't show any of the usual signs of one. No pain in the left arm, no slurred speech, no chest pain or any of that. In fact I walked 30 feet, climbed down 6 steps and then got on the gurney to be loaded up in the ambulance. I spent the night with a nitro drip, then got a quick test before being transferred to the other hospital in town to get 2 stents put in my chest. I was released 4 days later and then had a stroke (on my wedding anniversary). A hell of a way to spend your 40th wedding anniversary (so much for a steak dinner with the wife). I'm still alive 3 years later and next month will be 3 years since the heart attack, and 43 years married.

My only take away is that you might not have regular symptoms, and it can sneak up on you if you don't get checked out. A friend of mine died a week and a half ago (at 55) from a heart attack. He was having trouble catching his breath, and was having chest pain. He spent half a week in the hospital before he died (high blood pressure). Just another example of a not normal heart attack. My stroke hit me in my driveway, as I was talking to a friend and it looked like I passed out, but was still a wake and alert, but couldn't communicate with anyone (nothing worked). Scared the shit out of him and his wife (he's 3 years younger than me). I spent 2 days in the hospital before they released me.