I had a heart attack on 16 December 2019, when I was 33 years old. This is definitely not an age that one usually associates with heart attacks. I am Ram, and through this article, I am going to tell you what it was like when I had a heart attack.

As an infrastructure sector professional, I work with an MNC and have been posted in central India for the last five years. I often get asked if my job is stressful. After the heart attack, I have spent large amounts of time trying to understand whether or not I would call my work stressful. I am in a typical corporate job and with that comes a certain amount of stress, but personally, I would not attribute much to it.

2019: A different year for me

It was a year of many changes, my wife delivered a baby, and with that came a huge change in the schedule that I was used to following up until then. I remember people telling me that childbirth does bring a lot of changes, but they said that was part and parcel of life. And so I moved on.

I was constantly feeling restless, lethargic, and my energy levels were constantly low. I attributed it all to a lack of proper sleep, given that there was a new baby in the house. Not for once did I stop to think that what I was feeling could be the result of something else happening within the body.

On the day of the heart attack

It was a Monday morning, and I was getting into the week after having spent a very good weekend with my wife and child. I woke up as usual at around 6.00 am and by 7.30 am I started getting ready for work. By 9.30 a,m I was done with breakfast, which was my standard dalia porridge. In the next half an hour,r I was in the office at my desk.

It was a cold day in Bhopal, and as I parked my car in the office parking lot and started walking towards the building, I felt very uneasy. I started to feel breathless; I got to my seat, sat down, and opened up my laptop to start the day. Through all this,s I was feeling breathless and eventually I reclined my chair and started actively trying to get in more breaths.

Nothing helped.

The watch on my left hand started feeling heavy

My left hand, on which I had worn a watch, was feeling so heavy that I was........

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