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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mick Morry" data-source="post: 120493" data-attributes="member: 2924">That was not a joke unfortunately.  Bad family genetics at work there guys.  I am in pretty good shape for my age too.  I was even working out when I had the attack that took me out.  I was bench pressing 285 lbs and then I started sweating from every part of my body.  Within a couple of seconds my left arm went numb, my jaw, teeth, shoulder, heart area of my chest and back, all felt incredible pain.  My arm felt like someone was cutting it off with a hack saw.  I passed out 4 times from the pain, and because the room was spinning so bad.  Dizziness, loss of balance and consciousness are other major early signs.  Then vomiting and diarrhea hit me...followed by more passing out.  I had a 100 percent blockage of my right Coronary Artery.  It meant my blood was reaching my heart and then was stopped from circulating back into my body.  I suffered permanent nerve damage in my fingers of my left hand, but I can live with that.  Life is life.  I will take it in any form I can get it in.  I made the mistake of taking over 1 hour to get to the hospital.  I died on route in the ambulance and they used the deffibulator paddles to bring me back to life.  Super painful, and quite horrific I can assure you all.  So stay in shape.  I don't smoke or drink either.      I thought I was a healthy and am a somewhat young dude, but you can't run from your family history.  I just wish my family had told me how many men in my immediate family had chronic, deadly or serious heart conditions.  I would have been more careful.  Not going to the doctors for 5 years was stupid too, but I never even got a cold in that time so I thought I was fine there too.  Never think everything is fine and hope for the best.  Men start to get heart attacks as young as 40 and more commonly than you would think.  Woman need to pay serious attention when they hit the 60-65 years of age mark.  Then their risk factor reaches the same level as men from 45-50 years of age.  You learn all about this stuff once you have it hit you.  Watch for the warning signs, and most importantly learn the warning signs for you sex and monitor you weight, blood pressure, heart rate, exercise, stress and sleep habits.  It all can come back to haunt you. The most important part is I am recovering fine.  A healthy and happy mind is important for proper healing.  I have that going on.  I really enjoyed playing Fish Tales today in the Steam beta.  So great to be alive and playing pinball.  I played a fair amount in hospital on my iPad.  On the 22nd they had me in a room I later found out was the death room.  I wasn't expected to survive they later told me.  After 3 days in there they allowed me to start moving around very slightly and allowed me to play pinball.  I had 2 nurses by my side for 72 hours.  2 of the nurses on those shifts over the 3 days in that room ended up buying TPA on their iPads after seeing me play in my bed.  They told me a few days later when I was leaving the hospital that they were in love with TPA and were solidly hooked.  Neither of those woman were gamers before.  TPA just Rocks!!!!!</blockquote>

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