Wearing Red?

Today, as a part of the "American Heart Heath Month" of February, is "Wear Red Day". While it's really a part of the American Heart Association's "Go Red for Women", Men need to take heed as well. It was just six years ago (on February 16, 2005) that I had an "up close and personal" encounter with this silent killer: A heart attack at age 49, that shook me to my soul...

I will probably post more about that on the 5th anniversary of "My New Life" on February 16th, so stay tuned...

All I can say of the aftermath is: My entire outlook on life changed, I became truer to my homosexual feelings, My entire physiology changed (I had never had panic/anxiety attacks before and now was having them daily), I was very depressed, I started seeing a therapist (for the first time in my life), I lost the connection with my wife of 17 years, and I was losing myself...

Almost six years later I can report that I have grown through most of these issues, but I still look over my shoulder to see if that gurney (that follows people in that Plavix or Lipitor commercial) is following me... The threat never goes away...

So, for those of you (Men) that are feeling stressed out (that and a family history was the cause of my heart attack), I quote a line from the movie "Moonstruck" spoken by Cher's character: "SNAP OUT OF IT!", get a check up and find a good place!

Over, "Out" and wearing RED today in Portsmouth, VA