Thanks every one, Geri is felling much better, still not 100% but much better daily. Having even a mild heart attack is life changing, what with dietary changes, add'l medications and just physical draining. I stayed home this week to take care of cooking, critter tending an stuff. We both have to take things a bit easy, as I am still recovering from a much more serious heart problem (quintuple heart bypass, with plates and screws holdin' it all together). She really appreciates everyones prayers and good thoughts.
I feel like the very idea of calling a heart attack “mild” is confusing.
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Terms can be confusing especially when they define something as life changing as a heart attack. That said, the medical industry has created a scale that allows them to help us understand what level of that event one experienced. As emergency medical care has improved, the number of us that die from a heart attach has decreased greatly. Part of that is their being able to define the post care required based on the extensiveness of the heart attack.
I fully understand the confusion. Heart attack is a word that chills the heart of near everyone. Especially when it is connected with those close to us. However, when one lives within families (all four sides) who's DNA leans toward heart failure the clarity that such terms provide /become more helpful and understandable.
It may sound odd, but in my families, the term 'mild' is comforting, where 'massive' is chilling.
