“When I say I have a new life and new heart, I mean it.”

My father died of a heart attack when he was 52. Like my father, my mother also suffered from heart disease. She had angina (chest pain) but was misdiagnosed. In 1989, she had a triple-bypass and died the next morning, a few hours after surgery. She was 62 years old.

It took nearly two years before I was “officially” told that I had congestive heart failure.  I too, had been misdiagnosed until I was nearly 40 years of age. Read the full story

You know the scene. Unable to breathe, a man, usually middle-aged, clutches his chest and keels over. Often referred to as the “hollywood heart attack”–most people recognize crushing pain or pressure in the chest as a sign of a heart attack. But for women, heart attack symptoms can be far less dramatic than those depicted in the movies.

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