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"Barbra Streisand: Women's Heart Disease"

There's a worldwide epidemic that women are dying from, but nobody is talking about it. Barbra Streisand and Dr. Noel Bairey Merz are now telling the story. According to Dr. Merz, "heart disease is the single biggest health threat women face."

"In the United States, 39,520 women died from breast cancer last year (2010), but nearly 500,000 women died from heart disease." "In worldwide figures, about 400,000 women die from breast cancer, but 8.6 million women die from heart disease."

"Even though heart disease has been called a man's disease, since 1984, more women have died annually from heart disease than men." It's currently the leading killer of women. "Heart disease kills more women, at all ages, than breast cancer." "Heart disease kills more women than all cancers combined." "Four percent of women are diagnosed with cancer annually, whereas 44% of women are diagnosed with heart disease." "When heart disease strikes in women, half of the time it's sudden cardiac death." There's no opportunity to do anything about it. Please spend 28 minutes with these two women and learn why it's important for women to get this information. (Time 28:40)

MRI results

MRI results.

Well I went along to the local hospital, laid on the MRI machine with my head held steady and off I went with the scan process.

After I came out I had about an hour wait for the Dr. to come and explain the result.

No sign of any recent stroke or other significant abnormality.

GREAT,

Apart from the fact that I seem to not like to have a glass of wine with my meals, no after affects from this whole episode.

Heart treatment book worth looking at.

Heart treatment book worth looking at.

This book  really caught my attention and I thought you might like to know about it.
Very cheap too.

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Did I have a Stroke

Did I have a Stroke?

After we had shared a piza and a glass of local red wine we were sat quietly reading.
Bent down to pick up some pages that had fallen out of the book I was reading and had a loud noise in my head, sat up and saw double of everything and felt dizzy and sick.
My immediate thoughts were that I was having a stroke! and was going to be handicapped.
As my partner and I were in the Camping car and on a site at a lake north of Rome, she asked a neighbor for help and called for an ambulance. In about ten minutes it arrive. I was vomiting violently all the time. The medics helped me into the ambulance and took me to the local hospital. Given my medical history they were concerned it was heart related.
I was examined carefully, with ECG, blood tests, x-rays, and a head scan once the vomiting settled down. This took some time and was eventually controlled by medication administrated by a drip.

My partner was in the waiting room of the hospital all night and had tachycardia attack and was admitted too. But it was soon controlled by a drip medication.

Eventually the next day, given that my blood tests did not show any changes in my heart condition, we were both released. My only remaining problem was my balance. I could not walk unaided and got  dizzy quite easily so could not drive in spite of he Dr. saying I could.

When we eventually got home and I visited my GP. He did lots of Stroke related tests, gave my medication to solve the dizzy spell problem and prescribed a MRI scan, now scheduled for July 1, this to look at my ears and head. The ears are the suspected cause of my problem.

Two weeks on from the main event, I am pretty much back to normal and feeling good.