Heart Attack at a young age

[Syrreal]

Thank you everyone for your replies. I didn't think I was going to get so many!

Dawson5- Hope things went/are going well with your nephew. It really is the most frightening thing ever!

Geoff_M and dizluvah- Thank you for sharing your stories. I will ask DH if he wants to read them and/or wants to ask any specific questions. He doesn't have a dis account so it may come from mine. I really appreciate it.

DH works from home, so his lunches aren't affected by it. He just eats when we have here. He really only has one close friend and they still hang out a few times a week.

Although he was put on extended rest for the 1st 5 weeks or so, he has since been given the all-clear in the physical activity department (about a week ago). The doctor even said that he can push himself and just keep an eye for feeling weak, etc. DH is really excited about that and can't wait for the weather to allow for outdoor activity. He's always been an avid hiker, backpacker, camper so he couldn't be happier with this news.

Like I noted in the op, I cook very healthily at home. My mother has always had heart issues (hole in her heart and then cholesterol) so I have always been very mindful of how I cook things. I am pretty sure that some of his food issues are from quitting smoking, but mostly I think he is just overwhelmed with all of a sudden having to actually pay attention to what he eats. Even though we didn't eat fast food very often, he is now wanting it because he "can't have it", etc. As for "food police," he is the one being that. He has been perfect except for literally one meal a week where he splurges a little bit. This is our one meal out usually. It is to where I have to keep reminding him that some fat is good, etc. He is so worried about what he does.


He is now on about 5 different medicines. Most of which he will have to take for the rest of his life. He was also told to make sure that his brother gets himself checked out and we will always have to keep an eye on DS because of this. I am thinking that he feels a bit like a burden to me and as a genetic burden to DS. I know, it's not rational, but what can you do?

From what I've researched, it can be up to 6 months before any of the depression signs start going away by themselves. I'm glad he wants to see someone. I think it will do him some good to talk to someone about what he's feeling. I know that he feels he's already burdened me with so much that he doesn't want to put what he's feeling on top of everything else.

 

[agnes!]

It's funny, reading through the posts of the heart-attack patients, that's kind of the way I felt when I had my cataracts done last year. I'd look around the various waiting-rooms and think something along the lines of "what have I done wrong, I don't belong here" (because everybody else in the room was at least 25 years older than me) and I'd also think "this is an old person's disease, I'm not old".

It's not the same as a heart but eyes are still pretty important y'know? and I still feel funny about having pieces in my body that aren't part of the original equipment and kind of feel like people can't see my soul anymore.

agnes!