This is a great article about how much we learn about ourselves during our lifetime. It’s a good reminder to remember that we can’t get to where we want to be in life by thinking about it all the time. Even though we can’t change anything on our own, we can choose to focus on the things we want to change.
This is exactly what we have been doing for years. We’ve been paying attention to the little things that we can control, and then we focus on the things that we want to change. One of the things that we want to change is our health, especially our heart health. Our doctor, Dr. Tom Knaub, has been our go-to guy for years. He’s got a great blog at hearthealth.
The heart is a muscle that keeps the rest of the body from shutting down. As a kid, I would always tell you to do the 3-step test you would when you were trying to see if your heart was pumping. You know, a beat-to-beat.
The 3-step test is to stand up with a heart monitor, measure your pulse, and see if you have a pulse. If you don’t have a pulse, you can’t get blood to the heart. This is why Dr. Knaub has such an incredible blog. He has a real-life story about a guy named Tom Knaub who suffered a heart attack. He also tells us about the various heart tests and ways to go about getting these tests done.
Tom Knaub was an emergency room doctor in St. James, N.Y., who had a heart attack while trying to do a 3-step test on a patient. He survived, but he had the brain damage that resulted from the heart attack. He now has an incredible blog with lots of helpful information (although I’m a bit late to the party).
St. James is also the home of the National Heart and Vascular Institute and a major cardiac center where Tom Knaub was trained for some of the most advanced surgeries and procedures in the world.
The St. James Hospital is definitely a place you should avoid if you’re prone to claustrophobic symptoms. The emergency room there is as big as a gymnasium, and the nurses and doctors are all dressed in red and white uniforms. If you have any claustrophobic symptoms, or problems with blood pressure, or high blood sugar, or headaches, that’s all it takes to have a panic attack.
This is where you should have a serious panic attack, because the staff there will be like, “Oh my gosh, you just had a stroke. They had to call an ambulance.
The emergency room is one of those places that you don’t want to be. It’s full of freaks, and its filled to the brim with people who have a lot of personal issues. It’s a pretty big place, and there’s no escape. The ER nurses and doctors are all in red and white, like a hospital at war. The nurses will be like, Oh my gosh, you just had a stroke. They had to call an ambulance.
Of course, once you’re in the ER, there is the added complication of the fact that if you are a woman and have had a stroke, you are automatically a woman in that ER. The doctors will be like, How is this a stroke? You don’t have a stroke, you just had a stroke.
