Agreed, but many beekeepers have had 'heart attacks' and keep on going.  The experience of your fellows can instructive.  Medicine is  a business and patient reports can be an eye-opener. Your doctor goes home at the end of the day and takes weekends off.  it is a job.  Some are great and some less so.  

Get educated.  Nobody cares about your health as much as you do..  Try to get as much info as you can.  Don't be intimidated or defer to authority.  Second guess everything.

The first question is what sort of event it was.  What part of the heart?  What was the extent of the damage? Knowing that will help see the way forward.. Some such events are slight, some are crippling.  Maybe you were able to watch the angiogram while it hapened on the monitor and talk to the tech and saw the blockage and the stent.  Maybe the tech (a doctor) gave you advice.

Images from the  angiogram, triponin numbers, EKG plots, stress test results, etc. should be readily available to you.  Learn to understand them.  It ain't rocket surgery .  Demand more tests if you don't see what you need.

Get your jeopary scores and read up on the drugs prescribed.  Diabetes will complicate the situation and can be implicated as a causative factor and continuing risk.

Study the drugs prescribed and find user reviews if you can.  Some are harmful, some of doubtful usefulness,  and some are dangerous if stopped suddenly.

That said, I am not a doctor.  I didn't even play one on TV.

 

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