When Pride Becomes a Matter of Life and Death: The Shocking Truth Behind Embarrassment
Only about ten percent of Lyme disease impacts the heart, and only a fraction of those cases infect both the electrical and muscular systems. That’s what happened to me. In my experience, the pathogen tries to kill you two ways: it accelerates the heart or it stops it. Of the two, I found stopping it more interesting—but only because I simply skipped beats. Any worse and I might have needed a pacemaker.
An End to Blame
During my out-processing, my cardiologist—the chief of cardiology—shared something that changed my life. When Caroline asked, “How do you know who’s going to have a heart attack?” he replied, “Even with everything we know about risk factors, I can’t predict who’ll have a heart attack. I only know that if someone does, I can fix them.”
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