I just thought you should know that I’m probably not going to drop dead any second now from the leading killer of women my age- a heart attack.
Okay, I didn’t really think that I did have heart disease. But about a year ago, my local paper ran a front page Sunday edition article about how women around my age, 40, can have heart disease and not even know it, until they just one day out of the blue have a heart attack. I used to eat like a pig, smoke like a fiend, and not exercise. All those things have changed, but I still worried about the effects my previous lifestyle may have had on my heart health. Plus my dad had his first heart attack before age 45, which greatly increases my risk.
So today I had a stress echo, and while I still have to meet with the cardiologist next week, the tech told me she didn’t see any evidence of coronary artery disease. Woot!
Have you been tested lately?