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Extremely high calcium score at 42 - is there any positive here??
Heart & Blood Health | Last Active: Jun 25 3:31pm | Replies (193)Comment receiving replies
I'm sure glad that you're still here. And hope that the doctor learned better patient-communication skills 😏.
When my mother was studying medicine, there was a famous retired doctor who spent his retirement years studying autopsies and the related medical files. He told the students that the most fascinating thing he learned is all of the conditions people clearly had, and never mentioned to doctors, and which 'should' have killed them but didn't even seem to affect them at all. For her, it was proof of the body's innate trend toward healing or 'working around problems.
My cardiologist once explained that bypass surgery came about because doctors studied autopsies and saw how bodies 'make self bypasses' all the time, detouring around obstacles, increasing load on smaller pathways that grow in strength as a result, etc.
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That’s exactly how my heart defect was made by my mother during gestation. A bunch of rogue heart cells made their own pathway from the SA Node to the AV Node to form a short circuit complete loop. When a pulse signal gets trapped inside the loop, it commands the right Ventricle to contract as it goes around and around. Then there’s the regular pathway that also commands the right ventricle to pump. So my right ventricle is pumping so fast, like 197bpm, my heart feels like it’s going to explode.
Now my heart is so messed up. There are two pathways for the pulse signal to go thru in each chamber, the main and the secondary. The main pathways in the right and left ventricle are broken, also the pathway that connects the both of them. So the whole bottom of my heart is only working thru the secondaries. You can imagine what’ll happen if any of the three secondaries breaks. Like the song say”Goodbye cruel world, I’m off to see the circus!” And just imagine this poor heart has been keeping me alive since I was born 78 years ago, that’s more than 3 quarters of a century. I guess mom knew what she was doing huh!!!