That was a hell of a read...

Despite the fact that the cause of your story is shocking and saddening, it also goes to show what kind of place this forum can bein a very positive way thanks to your openness and your very touching and plausible words about how things can go in life.

Too many people tend to take too many things for granted, at times me included. Reading your text made me think more than twice. You probably take nothing for granted anymore as you are constantly confronted with your physical problem(s) and I can imagine what you must be going through mentally.

My feeling is, and I can only speak for myself, that when things go well for a certain period of time I forget to remind myself with reasonable frequency that health and luck is temporary.

Your words come with maximum transparency and seriously, I thought my life is fucked when I had a toothache a while ago over night before I was able to see the dentist the next afternoon. Reading that you got 28 teeth extracted slightlyput things into perspective again...

There aren't many things to say here for me I guess as I haven't experienced anything concerning heart diseases so far. One thing is for sure though: I truly thank you for your openness as it proves that sharing such personal stories should become more of a status quo within our society. People are thankful for it, people benefit from it, especially those who might be concerned with similar problems. But also those who find themselves in an overall comparable desperate situation.
And the very few who might abuse honesty and transparency to stigmatize someone as weak will only lose the battle against empathy when more people open up about all kinds of problems.

@yahoo62278, I sincerely hope everything turns out the best way possible for you and I would be more than happy to keep reading your posts here for many, many years to come. Despite these difficult conditions, I hope you can still enjoy NYE with a sense of bravery and the ambition to consider the race for health started, to win it and to make 2023 a positive turning point in your life for the better! My thoughts are with you!

All the very best wishes!