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40. If you're anywhere around Central Texas, let's meet for coffee/tea or any heart healthy beverage ...

I was fortunate, in another century, when I was 38 (too close to half my life ago) I had a heart attack in my doctors office (I was there for a sore left shoulder). When they let my then 3 and 2yr old daughters into the ICU (I'd never heard of children ever being allowed to visit ICU), I realized I had made a terrible mistake, that I was not going to have another. But I was going to hand out a few. Nothing like having to be in a situation where you might be saying good-bye to your young children to wake one up and realize I needed to grasp the seriousness of it. The ambulance ride from my doctors office to a hospital I could see from his office window was my first hint. A two or three block ride I don't remember, and becoming aware in ICU might have been clues, too.

I was fortunate, mine was an infected heart sack that cause my heart to enlarge. I recovered with only a leaky valve. I hope you get 10 times my incredible luck.