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Hey man, I’m sorry to hear that this has happened to you, but be encouraged. If you survived the initial event, the odds are actually very much in your favor. This cardiac event is nicknamed a "widow maker" because it happened to you at a relatively young age .... but a actual widow maker is called that because kills its victim outright. Not that your heart attack isn’t serious—at your young age, it’s VERY serious. But you SURVIVED it! That ups the odds in your favor considerably. The rest is just doing what your doctors and nurses tell you to do, keeping some perspective, not letting all of this get you too wound up....although it would be understandable if it did....and trust in the process.

And when you finally get home, which I am confident you will, take your meds like a good boy without complaining, and make any of the lifestyle and/or dietary changes they tell you to make. It may take a few weeks or a couple of months before these changes become habits that you don’t have to consciously think about all the time, but that relatively short period of discipline until these things become habitual is a small price to pay for another 50-60 years of life.

I wish you the best of luck, and of course I will pray for your rapid and complete recovery. Get well soon.