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Heart attack: did you bring this on yourself?

14 Nov

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In the early hours, days and weeks following my heart attack last May, many conversations with family and friends started the same way: “How could this have happened to YOU?” – followed by an expectant pause during which I was supposed to explain myself.  If only I’d been a chain-smoker or a diabetic!  It would have somehow seemed more comforting to them, because it might mean that my heart disease was self-inflicted, that something like this could never touch them.  (more…)

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