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xoxoxoBruce · 06-01-2010, 07:37 PM

A dear friend was buried today. She was in her mid-50s, had diabetes, and had been recently hospitalized for an infected cut.
But what killed her was a massive heart attack. No, I take that back, what killed her was ignorance.

Sure, she had a massive heart attack, but she didn't know it, because women's symptoms are not the same as men's, which have been drilled into everyone's heads with public service announcements, and pamphlets/literature.

The next day she complained to a friend, in passing, she felt really crappy, and said friend forced her to go to the ER, worrying it was a reaction to the infection drugs. You see, she didn't know the symptoms either.

At the ER, they asked her if she had chest pains. She said no. Then they did blood tests and confirmed the heart attack. Finally 30-odd hours after the attack, surgery and a pacemaker. She died the next day.

This has been mentioned here before, but there's a lot of work to be done educating women about heart attacks. Educate yourself, your life depends on it.

06-01-2010, 07:37 PM	#1
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Listen up, women. A dear friend was buried today. She was in her mid-50s, had diabetes, and had been recently hospitalized for an infected cut. But what killed her was a massive heart attack. No, I take that back, what killed her was ignorance. Sure, she had a massive heart attack, but she didn't know it, because women's symptoms are not the same as men's, which have been drilled into everyone's heads with public service announcements, and pamphlets/literature. The next day she complained to a friend, in passing, she felt really crappy, and said friend forced her to go to the ER, worrying it was a reaction to the infection drugs. You see, she didn't know the symptoms either. At the ER, they asked her if she had chest pains. She said no. Then they did blood tests and confirmed the heart attack. Finally 30-odd hours after the attack, surgery and a pacemaker. She died the next day. This has been mentioned here before, but there's a lot of work to be done educating women about heart attacks. Educate yourself, your life depends on it. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.