10 October 2011

Heart Attack

Myocardial infarction...
When I started flying EMS, one of the smartest and most experienced flight nurses I know told me the single most important factor in avoiding coronary problems...
"Choose your parents carefully!" This, after I had related the story of distance runner Jim Fixx. Jim's father had died of a heart attack in his early 40's. Wanting to avoid that fate, Jim took up long distance running. He was mostly muscle and bone when he died at the age of 52... of a heart attack.

Last night as I lay in bed trying to doze off I was thinking about the term "heart attack".
ATTACK!
An attack is an aggressive thing. Why would our hearts want to do something so openly offensive to us? These attacks are not good for the body as a whole, therefore they are not good for the "attacking" heart.
Why do hearts attack?

C'mon hearts...
All we are saying, is give peace a chance!

2 comments:

the golden horse said...

My dad had his first heart attack at 40, that has been in the back of my mind since I turned 40.

the golden horse said...

Off subject, but since you are such a gold buff, if you haven't watched it, try catch the History Channel Decoded of Ft, Knox. They seem to think the gold is gone. There hasn't been an inventory since early 70's. pretty interesting.