• Butt Pirate@reddthat.com
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    6 months ago

    Man these heart defects are scary. I know at least two people IRL that just dropped dead very young from an undiagnosed heart defect. One was a very fit athlete.

    Poor kid. Poor family. Shitty situation all around.

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      6 months ago

      One lesson to take is don’t take viral infections lightly. Don’t exercise while recovering from a cold, covid, or the flu. Viral infections can weaken your heart temporarily and exercising in that state can damage your heart.

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        I mean sure, OK, but you can go your entire life without realizing you have a heart problem and then you just drop dead one day without ever realizing you were at risk. That’s the scary part. One person died while running on a track, decades before COVID was a thing. The other died at home and left four young children behind; wasn’t sick, no symptoms, just gone. I know three other people that just up and died from aneurysms.

        I’m not scared of dying, and I know that any given moment could be my last one ever, but I really like my life and I’ve got shit I still want to do, you know?

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          Yeah, that’s what I’m saying: if you want to reduce the risk of just dropping dead, make sure you properly recover from viral infections, which are a major reason of that happening.

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            Viruses have literally nothing to do with what I’m talking about. No one is talking about viruses here, not sure why you’re hung up on them.