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Your explanation is excellent, gloaming! I’m having the Watchman procedure next week & will be glad to get it over with. People need to be aware of how serious A-Fib is, get a 2nd or even 3rd opinion if necessary, but get treatment! It’s difficult to accept the diagnosis, but we just have to adjust. I was doing everything “right”, but in my case it was just hereditary. So, I’ll continue doing what I was with diet & get back to the gym after the Watchman recovery! Oh - - I’m the 76 year old with cerebral palsy from a birth injury, using a walker the last 12 years, going to the gym, have 1 son/10 grandkids & very independent except when my sweet husband gets “that look”. So, when I say we adjust? I mean we pray first, get over ourselves, pull our big girl panties up & get on with living! I’ll get off my soapbox now 🤣
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Ginny, it's true...we have to adapt, even to finalities over which we cannot have any input or control, and with which we cannot negotiate a better outcome for ourselves. A stroke can be life-altering, let alone end life. If we can halve our risk, that's HUGE!! The risk may be small, but for some it is substantial. Each patient is unique because we respond to stressors of all kinds, including new prescriptions, differently. Stroke ain't a prescription...it's a sentence.