ALERT Our beloved eXe died last night of a heart attack - UPDATE, post 206

Dobbin

Faithful Steed
Owner had his heart attack at age 40.

He had been working construction jobs for his employer, eating "construction food", had just had his first child and the wife was pregnant with their second, had just lost his wife's mother to cancer. And his job was a lot of travel and stress.

Somewhere there is an "index" of life's events which a high score indicates one is more liable to a heart attack. Owner says he was "well qualified" for his "event."

He survived. And at least in part that is the reason I am part of Owner's life as he attempted post heart-attack to "get back to the land" on his ancestral acres.

Owner has some interesting statistics regarding heart attacks.

One in 5 American males will have some sort of heart attack during their life.

Half of these go un-noticed/un-recognized. The other half result in death. Thus your chance of death because of a heart attack as an American male is about one in 10.

Owner kind of straddled the margin. Not sure if his was a heart attack - he was brought to the ER and examination found one of his five arterial passages plugged 100 percent (i.e. the "widowmaker.") Owner survived because he is among the 11 percent of the male population that has FIVE major arteries feeding the heart, rather than the usual four.

(Doctor): "If you had blown this off, you likely would have been dead within a week."

Horse condolences to all the eXe connected. There are not enough good humans in the world, and a surplus of the not so good.

But the winnow is not in human hands.

Dobbin
 

SlipperySlope

Veteran Member
I am so sad to hear this. Praying for his family.

My DH used to say that men needed to be careful when they hit their mid to late 50's. He called it the first heart attack stage. Predictably, my hubby had his first one then. It was only luck that that one wasn't fatal. Sometimes it all seems like a giant crapshoot.
 

usmcpackrat

Veteran Member
Words escape the ability to express the sadness from this very disheartening news.
I can't believe that I see what is posted.......

A brother is now gone......and tears rolling down my cheeks.

I, have nothing to say that can even begin to describe the emotions that I feel now.

My prayers my friend and are with you and those of us here along with family left behind.

Godspeed bro, and soon, soon we will meet again.

I'm gonna go get really drunk now
 
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