# CT Scan Reveals Very High Calcium Around My Heart. Serious or Meh?

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**Created:** [March 27, 2025, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ct-scan-reveals-very-high-calcium-around-my-heart-serious-or-meh/1016200 "2025-03-27T16:04:55Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 4, 2025, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ct-scan-reveals-very-high-calcium-around-my-heart-serious-or-meh/1016200/44 "2025-04-04T00:46:58Z")

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I remember your thread about being stabbed near the heart years ago; does that still have an effect on your health?

> [@Ask The Guy Who Was Stabbed Next To His Heart](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-was-stabbed-next-to-his-heart/660127):
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> It’s been six months since it happen, I am now (mostly) healed and the person who stabbed me is going to prison. It happened after a night of drinking, my girlfriend blacked out and I said something that set her off; not unusual, but this time she came at me with a steak knife and planted it four inches into my chest right next to my left nipple and pointed downward towards my heart. Another two inches and I would have been dead on the spot. Talking about it actually helps. I have seen the c…

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