Just a Little Heart Attack

'Just a Little Heart Attack' Video - ABC News

This video is near and dear to my heart.  No so much for the fact that it reminded me EXACTLY of my morning routine (minus the husband and - thankfully - minus the actual heart attack), but because I have had issues with high blood pressure that I wanted to ignore, or pass off, or deny.  Twice in my life I was diagnosed with severe hypertension.  Tests were run, family history taken.  There was nothing anyone could point to . . . other than stress. 

I was medicated  . . . and I HATE medicine!  But hearing the doctors tell me that if I kept ignoring it or refused to take the medication, I very likely would suffer a stroke, annurism, or death before I was 40 (leaving my kids all alone), made me stop and listen. 

It's hard to beleive, when you are a "super mom" that anything aside from a broken leg could keep you down; that unless you are bleeding from your ears, there must not be anything wrong with you.  I know MANY, MANY of you out there can relate, and I don't want to lecture.  But I do want to remind you . . . if you are dead, you canNOT help your kids anymore.

Please watch this - and laugh!  And then listen - and take it seriously.

'Just a Little Heart Attack' Video - ABC News