I've always sort of chuckled at the term massive heart attack. The fact the matter is no heart attack is massive. The heart is a tiny muscle and it stops feeding because it doesn't get enough blood flow. There's nothing massive about it. In fact the heart is a very fragile muscle and a lot of things that can cause it to stop. The idea of the use of the term massive I guess is to increase the drama of it all. It doesn't matter whether you have a tiny clot that stops in a blood vessel that's very important or tiny bit of nerve asynchronicity that causes an irregular heartbeat and causes your heart to go into defibrillation and stop working but none of it's massive. It's just laughable. I don't know how that ever got to be a term that was associated with heart attack. Anyway that's beside the point but it just bugs me.
Well, I think "massive" implies you're dead versus a dead spot on your heart.
I'm thinking of getting a defibrillator, like the one Bond used in Casino Royale.
They are pretty cheap now. About $500-800 and always at the ready. Someone has to be there to do it though. You would likely be unconscious.
Aint a lot of pain quite like having a needle put into your wrist. hurts down to your soul.
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