HUNTSVILLE LIVING | FEBRUARY 2024 | 5
From my heart
HUNTSVILLE
LIVING
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PUBLISHER Lange Svehlak lsvehlak @ athensreview . com
GENERAL MANAGER Traci Gallin traci @ itemonline . com
EDITOR Brenda Poe bpoe @ itemonline . com
ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE Ashley Horton ahorton @ itemonline . com
I celebrated my one year anniversary of surviving a heart attack on Feb ,. 5 , 2024 .
I lived life being worried that I would die at the tender age of 45 like my mother and my uncle did .
So when I had a heart attack at 45 , mere weeks from my 46th birthday .
I lost a few days recovering . But I heard the warnings , I focused my goals on getting healthier .
I did that over the past year . I lost weight . I got my A1c in a manageable range . My artery that had the dissection has miraclously healed itself .
I credit the hard work I put into myself and the friends and family that prayed into my health . What I have realized now is that I put too much fear in what could happen and ignored my health - leading to a heart attack .
I am moving forward aware of walking that extra mile is how I take care of me . I will work harder to reduce the unnecessary stress of trying to save the world .
I am working on saving myself from myself - one step at a time .
Brenda Poe
BRENDA POE
bpoe @ itemonline . com 936-295-5407
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