Echocardiograms have become very detailed and relieving in the last couple of years. Hopefully they will become cheap enough to where you can get them at an annual physical.
“... die suddenly at races, during training runs, or in the off hours between them.”
More great journalism. Awesome.
I always think of Pete Maravich:
Maravich had flown out from his home in Louisiana to tape a segment for Dobson’s radio show that aired later that day. Dobson has said that Maravich’s last words, less than a minute before he died, were “I feel great. I just feel great.” An autopsy revealed the cause of death to be a rare congenital defect; he had been born with a missing left coronary artery, a vessel that supplies blood to the muscle fibers of the heart. His right coronary artery was grossly enlarged and had been compensating for the defect.
They say that it was a miracle he lived as long as he did.
“ I used to smoke marijuana. But I’ll tell you something: I would only smoke it in the late evening. Oh, occasionally the early evening, but usually the late evening – or the mid-evening. Just the early evening, midevening and late evening. Occasionally, early afternoon, early midafternoon, or perhaps the late-midafternoon. Oh, sometimes the early-mid-late-early morning. . . . But never at dusk.”
Steve Martin
Our local doctor related a story to me recently about working the ER in the larger neighboring town. There was a bicycle race in town one hot summer and an early 30’s man was brought in with what was suspected to be heat stroke. All his companions were in their 50’s & 60’s. Even though they were all cardiologists, none suspected cardiac arrest because he was the youngest and most fit of them all, so were shocked when that turned out to be the case.
My friend Pim Van Lommel is a cardiologist in Denmark. When he became a cardiologist they didn’t have CPR or resuscitation paddles.
In the 1990’s he noticed that that the patients he brought back to life with the new technology were telling him about life after death.
So he did a very professional study, interviewing many resuscitated patients and found that about 15% had the after death experience that they fully remembered.
His research was so good it was published in the medical journal Lancet in 2001.
Lancet VOLUME 358, ISSUE 9298, P2039-2045, DECEMBER 15, 2001
Near-death experience in survivors of cardiac arrest: a prospective study in the Netherlands
Dr Pim van Lommel, MD
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673601071008/fulltext
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My first death experience was full a blown visit to Heaven in 1988. It was very life changing. I never fully returned to my body thus it gave me unusual abilities.
I have since found that through prayer and meditation I can have the same experience.
Since then I have spent 25+ years studying consciousness and the neuroscience of how it interacts with the physical body.
Anita Moorjani is author of the New York Times bestseller Dying to be Me. After her cancer diagnosis in 2002, Moorjani was taken to a hospital in 2006 where she lay in a coma for 30 hours, during which Moorjani had a Near Death Experience and returned with her cancer cured.
I’ve known her for many years and she is one of the few death experiencers that did not allow her experience to inflate her ego. She is a wonderful person.
We got together a few months ago and I helped her to understand her death experience along with why and how her cancer was cured. Her books are excellent.
Many people who claim to have had an NDE only had an ego rescue that caused a profound spiritual experience. This is true of some who have written several books and are famous.
Heart Attack!
Had a couple,,,
Looks like a home AED costs about $1,500. May be worth it.
OT but slightly related
Iowa Supreme Court Chief Justice dropped dead of a heart attack walking his dog. Age 66.
He was the Satanic minion that imposed gay marriage and unrestricted abortion on Iowa.