by Carolyn Thomas ♥ @HeartSisters
The freshly-diagnosed heart patient often staggers from the shock of being hospitalized to the shock of being discharged before we’re feeling even barely ready to return home. As I wrote in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) about my own hospital discharge after surviving a misdiagnosed heart attack:
“I couldn’t wait to go home, to sleep in my own bed, amid familiar surroundings, family and friends. But when I was sent home from the Coronary Care Unit, I was also scared that every twinge I felt surely meant another heart attack. I’d left behind the constant monitoring by professional experts for a home where nobody in my family knew anything about cardiology!”
If you’ve had as many 12-lead ECG tests as I’ve had done over the years since my heart attack, you too may marvel at how swiftly the nurse or paramedic or stress test clinic tech can slap those sticky electrode patches onto your chest, arms and legs. Having observed many people slapping patches on me, I often wonder: how do they know if they’re attaching those 
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