ITS ALL ABOUT HEART

Hi Ladies,

Well ....once again my friend ELLEN sparked another topic for me to share. THANK YOU ELLEN haha Hope you don't mind. But when I heard your story about your daddy memory...I had to share one of mine as well.
Soooooo ...when I say " its all about heart" I mean literally ALL ABOUT HEART My dad had chronic heart problems starting at the age of 36 with a heart attack , then a double bypass at 40, quadruple at 41, 7 bypasses at 53, cardiac arrest at the age of 63 ( but thankfully the paramedics were able to revive him ,however he was in a coma state for 3 weeks after that experience). Then at the age of 67 he had a heart transplant which was successful because the heart did not reject but complications caused him to pass on.
Now... all this may sound a bit sad and difficult and really draining etc And it was...but at the same time We had many many memorable moments which became even more special because of the seriousness of dads heart health. What I wanted to share with all of you was not the sad moments but something actually significant. When my dad was in that coma state for 3 weeks...Every day ..my mom, brother, sister and myself would go and visit dad and stay for hrs on end. And because they say when someone is in a coma they can still hear we were talking to my dad as if he could converse. haha My brother would tell him the date and time of each day as soon as we would walk in the room haha And the doctors also told us it would be a good idea to say things that would remind him of us when we were kids ( familiar things because it would keep his mind active). So I got the brainy Idea for me, my sister and my brother to sing silly songs my dad use to sing to us when we were little.. My dad survived that cardiac arrest and coma experience with little to almost no significant brain damage.. Which that in itself was a miracle. All he had was a slight personality change...When he woke up three weeks later alert ...he didn't know where those last 3 weeks went..and when we told him what happened he couldnt believe it. The doctors told us later that they listened to us while we were in the room singing to dad..( of course they were laughing at those silly songs ) but they felt all the silly things we were doing ..truly helped my dads heart to survive..It gave him the will to live for us. To some this may sound like a sad story and many heartaches along the way but for me personally my dads heart issues ( although difficult at times) they have presented me with many gifts in regard to life. So when I say its all about heart.. Yes it was a physical heart issue..but also an emotional heart issue and then a creative heart issue because I didn't know I could write poetry until I decided one day to put my heartfelt thoughts and feelings down on paper in poem form. So ...to me its all about HEART when I think about my dad. To me he was a HEART OF INSPIRATION.