Co-worker has a heart attack on Christmas Day Dec 2010

Jan 08, 2011

Dec. 28 2010

Today when I got back to work after the Christmas holidays, I learned that one of my co-workers had a heart attack on Christmas Day.  He had to have a quadruple by-pass.  He is 38 and he's in relatively good shape or so I thought.  He certainly wasn't over-weight but he also didn't make very good food choices as I was able to observe as I'd walk by his office while he was eating a breakfast snack or eating lunch.  His favorites seems to be Bojangles fried chicken and fries with sweet tea & Cook-Out burgers and fries.  He appeared to be healthy in all aspects.  He even worked out at a gym regularly.  Some of it is probably genetics--the reason why he had the heart attack but the doctors also told him he needed to eat healthier.

This really hit me hard.  I know I'm not in good shape at all--morbidly obese as I am.  So this really shook me up and made me think.  I've got to get healthier.  I don't want to be in his shoes.  I'm thinking that I'm on the road to a healthier me by having this WLSurgery.  I need this before it's too late for me.  With my cholesterol at 199...I'm in danger of clogged arteries myself.  Time is running out.  I can't wait to get going on becoming a healthier me.  :-) 

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