An acquaintance of mine who also had bypass surgery, stopped me one day and asked how I was doing. I cheerfully replied I was doing very well. Charlie thought it was better to be gloomy and anticipate the worst, I could never figure out why that would be an attitude to have. You can go happy or you can go gloomy the choice is yours. One of the most dreaded fears we carry with us is the fear of a heart attack.
Some publications rattle off statistics and probabilities and numbers numbers numbers.
When you're the one having the heart attack the stats and the numbers are of little consequence. It is your world that is being threatened, not some large statistical number or population of overweight people or Type A personalities. It's you that matters when the old heart starts acting up, it's your world that is coming apart. Over reacting to the danger The fear of heart attacks is an overblown fear making matters worse than they really are. And they are already bad enough if you happen to be the victim of a coronary.