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multigraincracker

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2. I was 21 at the time.
Tue Mar 1, 2022, 09:33 AM
Mar 2022

I had just given up on experimenting with illegal drugs and moved on to full scale research.
I was in bed one morning when the chest pain started. With in a few minutes it got worse and I thought about calling EM. I was in too much pain to get up, so I was waiting for it to get a little better, then it happened. I let out the largest burp in my life. The pain went away right then and I never called.
Then a year ago, about 50 years later, I was feeling very tired and told my partner. She is an RN. She took my arm and put two fingers on my wrist, looked at me and said get in the car, we are going to the ER. I hadn't given that any thought, but listened to her. Two days later I came home with a pacemaker. When I got to the ER, my pulse was 28 beats per minute. I was just going to go the bed and go to sleep. A day or two earlier I had ran 3 miles and two days after getting my pacemaker I was back on my track running. Doctor told me to keep running.
Hearts are tricky.

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