Steven, I think when a doctor has a patient with a not so good prognosis, they try to ease them into the right direction. I’m in the same type of situation but caused by a 1 in a million heart birth defect. If you think about it, if they told you the dire position you’re in, you just might drop dead right in their office. That’s what happened to me, except I didn’t drop dead but he scared the he!! out of me.

I went for a stress test and they found a problem. The doctor said I needed a CT Scan immediately because he saw something wrong with my heart. He walked me over to the CT room and explained to the technician exactly what he wanted and then told me he’d be back as soon as he read the results.

I was sitting on a chair in a small room when he came in. He looked real serious as he came over to me and sat next to me. I have some bad news for you, “you’re going to die in your sleep!” OMG, I cried out. I thought he meant that very night but he proceeded to explain that I have this birth defect in my heart. That’s when he explained that about an hour after I fall asleep, the defect would cause me to go into tachycardia(beating real fast). If I didn’t wake up to get help, I’d go into A-fib(out of sync) triggering a fatal heart attack. Gee doc, thanks, now every night I close my eyes, I don’t know if I’ll ever open them again. I was told that in 1997, it’s 2022 and as you can see, I’m still here, birth defect and all. Only problem, I woke up 3 times to get help, plus the defect has triggered 3 heart attack but I’m still here Steven.

Do you get what I’m trying to say? Even if your prognosis is poor, stressing yourself out won’t help, in fact “Stress Kills”. Your doctor has you on the right medication, a statin. It may be to late to reverse the damage but you’re still alive aren’t you! Make the best choices you can and learn to live. In 1997 I made this motto for myself. “ If it’s my time to die, I shall go. But if it’s my time to live, I shall live my life to its fullest.” I was 53, I’m 78 now, my heart is so damaged and fragile, my doctors say I could die at any second. In fact, I’ll die between the first half of a heartbeat and the second half. So what am I doing right now, listening to oldies of the 50’s & 60’s and passing along my knowledge to the younger generation, YOU!!!