Heart Attack Changed My Life!

On the 2nd February 2020 I had a heart attack which put me into hospital.

I have never been as scared as I was that day because I thought "this is it".

The Paramedics, Nurses and Doctor's were excellent in dealing with me.

Smoking!

Thankfully I survived but had to make onel life changing decision, to quit smoking!

I got told by the Nurses and the Consultants that if I wanted to carry on living then I had to quit smoking, not easy to do when you have smoked for 41 years.

I told a lie in hospital that I only smoked about 20 a day, I reckon the Cardiologist knew this and made sure I understood the grave situation I was in.

In reality I smoked 60 a day, not good!

Two days after I came out of hospital I quit for good, just stopped, I can't use patches as I'm allergic to most types of sticky plasters.

So I use a vape, yes I know there are pro's and con's to these but I did needed help and my Doctor was happy about it.

High Blood Pressure

The other issue I had was that my blood pressure was through the roof and wasn't coming down.
When the Paramedics took me into hospital my blood pressure was 210 over 132, scary!

Talk about pills, I was given six straight off to thin my blood, two to lower my blood pressure and two to lower my cholestrol.

Then my blood pressure was taken every hour while I remained in hospital, so sleep is out the window.

Plus I also had a chest xray, 3 ECG's until they were happy.

The one thing I couldn't have was an angiogram as I'm allergic to aspirin and can't have stents fitted, which the Cardiologist explained to be a problem, unfortuantely there is nothing I can do about that.

Moving Forward

After 36 hours they let me go home when my blood pressure had finally gone down to a level which was acceptable.

For two months I have simply being watching television, feeling sorry for myself and getting bored as I can't do much.
Because I have other health issues and Covid-19 appeared I am classed as Vulnerable which means I have been on Lockdown and not allowed to go out unless it's for medical reasons.

Then I started to think well it's no good just vegetating, feeling sorry for yourself, time to put your time to use.
I already have affiliate websites but don't pre-sell Wealthy Affiliate, so I thought it's about time I got myself back into things!

So long as I take my tablets which I have to take everday, I'm fine.

Neil