This November 3rd will be the one-year anniversary of my Widow Maker Heart Attack event. Much has happened during this year with my recovery and my outlook for moving forward. Many changes are coming and will be revealed as my story evolves.
About my physical status, prior to my event I was at a body weight around 164 pounds and had developed through the years the typical man-belly many are familiar with. As of this writing, I am averaging a body weight around 145 pounds with dramatically improved body mass and a much smaller man-belly. I am stronger than I was before this event and much more agile now. I give thanks to my personal trainer at the gym for her enthusiasm in helping me achieve my new body mass. I am looking forward to getting back on my mountain bike when the weather cools down soon. According to my cardiologist, my heart function has returned to normal for my baseline age.
About my mental status, I have reconciled the fact that I have experienced and survived a major life changing event, and that I am not fearful of exploring ways to continue to build new life goals. This will become an important part of my “New Beginnings”. A major life changing event does impact your mental wellbeing, and being able to explore and reconcile both the past and the present is so important to your mental health for your continuing growth as your place in life now has a chance to evolve even further. While I do have some challenging days, I now have more good days than challenging days.
My words of encouragement to others who have experienced a major life changing event is to find a baseline in your current life that you are comfortable with, and then explore ways that you can improve from this baseline. Do not be fearful to challenge yourself, in whatever your goal increments are, and to live your life to the fullest. You have been given a chance to continue in this world. Enjoy your being here and celebrate it with your family and friends.
Please continue to follow my story through my recovery and “My Life Remembered”. While my writings may be raw in grammatical prose and the sentences may be long, each vignette truly expresses the emotions experienced while I am writing my recollection of that memory. As I told my therapist, my life has been a continuous movie with many plots and subplots.
Back to my story…