The Fall and Heart Failure

"It's always easier when someone else is in the hospital... but when it's your turn, be wary. This is the story of a fall, heart failure, surgery, and the recovery that follows. By Bart Horenbeck."

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On the night of Saturday, as I stepped out of bed around 5 in the morning to shower because I was sweaty and restless, I suddenly took a heavy fall. I still wonder how that could have happened. It's quite cramped on that small landing, and it gets slippery when you walk barefoot. Dizzy, I spun around and fell from the wooden spiral staircase. I'm certain I was crumpled at the bottom of the landing. With pain everywhere, I crawled back up and, in a daze, turned off the shower tap, which was still running. At that moment, I fell down the stairs again. The next morning, I woke up in the living room, dressed in shorts and completely disoriented. My phone was nowhere to be found; I had given up and thought, "I'll just wait." Fortunately, Susan came by and found me like that. She wanted to take me to the hospital immediately by car, but first she called my daughter. She also came immediately and saw that it was serious. She called an ambulance. "Dad, you've had a heart attack..