# Heart attack **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 30, 2020, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heart-attack/847208 "2020-01-30T02:14:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Latimera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/latimera/32/497_2.png) [@Latimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Latimera)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2020, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heart-attack/847208/21 "2020-01-30T19:39:11Z")
> [@VOW](#): > > **Latimera** , talk to the home health care nurse or your family’s Primary Care Provider about getting a referral for counseling. Your whole crowd could most likely benefit from a few sessions with a therapist. Amd Mrs Latimera needs some specialty guidance right now to handle the turmoil going on in her head. You have gotten tip top care for her body, and now the mind needs some attention. As was mentioned in my heart attack threads, catastrophic health issues often trigger depression. If the depression can be addressed appropriately, the body will heal faster. > > Health care is complex! > ~VOW Very good advice. Thank you. My wife went through excellent counselling for anxiety last year, and it helped her a lot. I’m already thinking that it will be important for her to see her therapist again as soon as possible. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2020, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heart-attack/847208/22 "2020-01-30T20:14:56Z")
Teenage boys are not quite human, and are typically wrapped up in their own little worlds, making fart noises with their armpits or dreaming of naked women or eating the entire contents of the refrigerator in one sitting. They will NOT come to you and say, “Hey, Dad, this business with Mom freaks me out. I’m also scared for you. Some nights I cry into my pillow.” Ask Mrs Latimera’s therapist for a referral to a teen counselor and take the kids. Don’t ask them if they want to go. Tell them they are going. Teen girls are slightly easier to deal with. They cry at EVERYTHING. ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2020, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heart-attack/847208/23 "2020-01-30T20:24:21Z")
> [@Latimera](#): > > Thank you all for the kind words. She is doing OK, and I’m sure she will be fine in the long run. But she is struggling not just with the effects of the heart attack and medication, but with the emotional impact. We just got a call telling her that she needs to be back at the hospital early tomorrow for another procedure to check one of her heart valves. It will require full anaesthesia. She broke down crying at the news she had to go back so soon for such an invasive procedure. She will just be there for a few hours, but still…sigh. Oh, I feel so sorry for you and your wife. (((Hugs))) for her, yourself and your boys! Good luck with the procedure. Hope all’s well. ---
**Author:** ![Latimera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/latimera/32/497_2.png) [@Latimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Latimera)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2020, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heart-attack/847208/24 "2020-01-30T21:15:21Z")
> [@VOW](#): > > Teenage boys are not quite human, and are typically wrapped up in their own little worlds, making fart noises with their armpits or dreaming of naked women or eating the entire contents of the refrigerator in one sitting. > > They will NOT come to you and say, “Hey, Dad, this business with Mom freaks me out. I’m also scared for you. Some nights I cry into my pillow.” > > Ask Mrs Latimera’s therapist for a referral to a teen counselor and take the kids. Don’t ask them if they want to go. Tell them they are going. > > Teen girls are slightly easier to deal with. They cry at EVERYTHING. > ~VOW More good advice. You totally nailed the description of teen boys. They totally internalised everything for the first few days. They didn’t show much emotion, just immersed themselves in video games. They didn’t sleep well, but didn’t admit it until we knew what was going on and that she was going to be OK. Then they started asking questions and revealing their concerns. My oldest actually vacuumed and washed the floors to help out!!! LOL! ---
**Author:** ![Latimera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/latimera/32/497_2.png) [@Latimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Latimera)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2020, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heart-attack/847208/25 "2020-01-30T21:16:22Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Oh, I feel so sorry for you and your wife. (((Hugs))) for her, yourself and your boys! > Good luck with the procedure. Hope all’s well. Thanks Beckdawrek. Truly appreciated… ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2020, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heart-attack/847208/26 "2020-01-30T23:59:19Z")
Hugs and prayers heading your way, **Latimera** and family. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heart-attack/847208/27 "2020-01-31T00:02:14Z")
From one who had his cardiac incident (OK - first) at 27 tell her to go along with the further testing and to push for some rehab as well. The rehab isn’t just for your body but most places for your mind as well. I will give credit for most of the last 35 years to my doctor and the Hell he put me through those first few months. And hugs from both of us here for your whole crew. ---
**Author:** ![Latimera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/latimera/32/497_2.png) [@Latimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Latimera)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heart-attack/847208/28 "2020-01-31T00:46:57Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Hugs and prayers heading your way, **Latimera** and family. Many thanks Dropzone. I must admit, I didn’t realise how much well wishes from dopers would mean to me… ---
**Author:** ![Latimera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/latimera/32/497_2.png) [@Latimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Latimera)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heart-attack/847208/29 "2020-01-31T00:48:05Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > From one who had his cardiac incident (OK - first) at 27 tell her to go along with the further testing and to push for some rehab as well. The rehab isn’t just for your body but most places for your mind as well. I will give credit for most of the last 35 years to my doctor and the Hell he put me through those first few months. > > And hugs from both of us here for your whole crew. 27? Yikes! I’m sure rehab is in her future… ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heart-attack/847208/30 "2020-01-31T01:11:03Z")
So what y’all are saying is, eating crap and drinking too much and smoking and partying are GOOD things? ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heart-attack/847208/31 "2020-01-31T01:38:32Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > So what y’all are saying is, eating crap and drinking too much and smoking and partying are GOOD things? Yay - I’ll live forever! ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heart-attack/847208/32 "2020-01-31T02:55:05Z")
Hope you are both doing well. Because heart disease is common, a lot of it happens in people without risk factors. Her diagnosis is pretty rare, and would make me wonder if she should be screened for other vascular problems. If she took estrogen or used cocaine it might be a different story. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heart-attack/847208/33 "2020-01-31T03:32:22Z")
I’m so glad to hear your wife will recover! Scary as hell, isn’t it? It’s good to live now, because things like that CAN be dealt with. When my dad was seven, his father, at age fifty two, died of a heart attack. Fast forward to when dad is fifty two, as healthy and fit as your wife sounds, and HE has a heart attack. But Dad lived another thirty two years, because there was angioplasty, clot busting drugs, and open heart surgery. Who wants to live in the good old days? Not me I tell you. And again, glad to hear your story has a good ending. > [@Latimera](#): > > My oldest actually vacuumed and washed the floors to help out!!! LOL! At this point I would have asked “Who are you really, and what have you done with my son?”😃 ---
**Author:** ![Latimera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/latimera/32/497_2.png) [@Latimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Latimera)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heart-attack/847208/34 "2020-01-31T04:47:42Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I’m so glad to hear your wife will recover! Scary as hell, isn’t it? It’s good to live now, because things like that CAN be dealt with. > > When my dad was seven, his father, at age fifty two, died of a heart attack. Fast forward to when dad is fifty two, as healthy and fit as your wife sounds, and HE has a heart attack. But Dad lived another thirty two years, because there was angioplasty, clot busting drugs, and open heart surgery. > > Who wants to live in the good old days? Not me I tell you. And again, glad to hear your story has a good ending. > > At this point I would have asked “Who are you really, and what have you done with my son?”😃 Thank you, I couldn’t agree more! The fact that they could send a camera through her arteries and take a look at the blockage is just amazing. And yes…my son really surprised me! LOL! ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heart-attack/847208/35 "2020-01-31T22:01:35Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > From one who had his cardiac incident (OK - first) at 27 tell her to go along with the further testing and to push for some rehab as well. The rehab isn’t just for your body but most places for your mind as well. I will give credit for most of the last 35 years to my doctor and the Hell he put me through those first few months. > > And hugs from both of us here for your whole crew. No one ever suggested any kind of rehab when I had a heart attack at age 28. That was 55 years ago, so maybe care has changed. Best wishes **Latimera**. At the very least you will not be devastated by the medical expenses. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heart-attack/847208/36 "2020-01-31T23:29:28Z")
I’m so glad to hear she came through this okay. Here’s to a long life for her! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heart-attack/847208.md?page=1)