As of October 10, 2009 widowmakerheartattack.com has been made the Official webite & blog for all heart attack suriviors and loved ones.
I am very proud to have the widowmakerheartattack.com officially recognized as the website for all heart atack survivors and loved ones.
“The Widow Maker Heart Attack at age 48″ is a passionate, compelling, informative, must read book from the perspective of the heart attack survivor. There are numerous books available that are authored by health care professionals or perhaps loved ones of heart attack survivors. This book is written from the heart and soul of a heart attack survivor. I hold nothing back in order to provide as much assistance to the heart attack survivors that want and despartely seek post heart attack knowledge.
The book begins by providing the reader with my brief personal and emotional background to first understand me as person. Quickly, the book progresses to cover emotional feelings and physical difficulties experienced when something started to go terribly wrong on March 31, 2008.
I guide the reader from the emergency room to the Catheter Lab and then ultimately the ICU, while all along conveying touching first person emotional feelings of events both for the education of the heart attack survivor but also loved ones that want to know.
I provide insightful, compelling and emotional first hand dialog into both the emotional and physical difficulties that I lived the entire first year following my Widow Maker Heart Attack. It is my hope, that not only heart attack survivors read my book and better understand their journey, but also loved ones of the survivor. I feel strongly that a better understanding on the part of the loved ones as to what the survivors are going through is critical to the mental and physical recovery of the heart attack survivor.
#1 by diana on July 18th, 2010
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My dad had a attack yesterday and had a stent put in today…doc said it was a widow maker and the attack was so sevear he is so luck to be here….does anyone kno what life style is like after this and having a stent…my dad is 56
#2 by Greg Mobley on July 21st, 2010
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My neighbor ordered your book for me. It hasn’t arrived yet, but I look forward to reading it. I had a widowmaker just last Sunday, July 18th, 2010. Never saw it coming. The Docs’ tell me I was literally only a few minutes from checking out. I’m 47, and the first male in my family to survive a heart attack. I was in the hospital 7 minutes from ER to cath lab.
#3 by Bill Beyer on July 23rd, 2010
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I had mine on December 11, 2007. I still remember the doc dropping by my recovery room the next day and saying “I am surprized you are still alive” LOL. In retrospect so am I. Now at 59 and moving slower I find it is still hard to explain to some people why it is that I walk slower and run out of breath faster, oh yeah, other than some of my heart is missing. God bless.
#4 by Ken Martin on July 28th, 2010
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Several years ago I lost my oldest brother to an apparent heart attack. Our mother has bypass in the early 80’s. I knew the history was there so after my brother’s death, I started seeing a Cardiologist. In my area they had just started doing CT-Angiograms (CTA). Several areas of soft plaque were identified as a result of the CTA. I started taking statins and monitoring my blood work twice a year.
I had really good luck in lower/raising the blood work where needed. I also started taking a Niacin supplement. My Cardiologist recommended a repeat CTA this month. The repeat CTA showed more soft plaque.
A cardiac cath was done July 8, 2010. As a result of the cath procedure surgery was scheduled for July 19, 2010. I had 3 blockages and one of the three was almost 100 percent.
My CABG was performed off pumped, or in other words on a beating heart. Keep in mind that I was without major symptoms over the past several years. I was 57 this year.
Thank you for allowing me to share my story with you.
#5 by Patrick J. Fox on July 28th, 2010
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Ken:
What you described is something that I constantly hear regarding unexpected blockages or perhaps heart attacks. Like you I had no idea what was about to hit me prior to my heart attack. I thought my biggest problem the day of my heart attack was giving D’s to students that actually deserved F’s and whether giving them a D would create motivation or provide a buffer providing less motivation. Little did I know that my life would change that day as much as it did.
I authored a book “The Widow Maker Heart Attack at age 48″ to help survivors and their loved ones better understand the process. For me it was wonderful writing down emotions and thoughts much like you did today. I wish you the best of health. My number one advice would be to find something you love and are passionate for and do it.
Regards,
Patrick Fox
#6 by Ken Martin on July 28th, 2010
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Patrick, you are very welcome. Each day I ask myself if I made a difference in someone’s life. I did before my surgery and will continue to do as long as I have the strength to do so. With my recent CABG that should be for at least another 30 years or so.