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Message: [QUOTE="Cuseregular, post: 4513255, member: 185"] similar story. Though I don't think this will result in an undiscovered condition in this situation with Damar, sharing stories as we are can motivate others to go get checked out with a regular annual physical and then when the circumstances make sense to do it (family history or other individual personal medical history to get an early colonoscopy or early heart eval., etc.), also get advanced testing done. Whatever the version of the coronavirus was 25 years ago, I got it, got it bad as a general flu and then it got serious serious involving the heart with a condition called pericarditis. I shared the story here back then. Landed in the hospital for a while, me at age 35 along with a bunch of people in their 60's and up with more "routine" heart problems, heart attacks and the like. Obviously sucked and happily mostly recovered (mostly), but the upside is what with all the advanced heart testing they do that they'd never otherwise do with a "healthy" person, subsequently in follow up evals they also found with me an upper/ascending aortic aneurysm (vs the lower abdominal aorta) that they've watched every 6-12 months for many years now, maybe maybe not related to the pericarditis they say. Lucky for me its been a slow grower barely moving, but as you know at a certain point it's time to get a proactive surgery before a rupture can occur (5.5 cm for this one and I've been at 4.8cm for a while now), because once they do rupture survivabilty chances aren't good at all(think John Ritter at a young age). Anyway point being here if anyone has a family history, has a history of a lot of exertional activities like a long weight lifting history, any weird one off heart issue like I had, go get checked out as it literally can be a life saver. In the case of the abdominal aorta just getting a simple x-ray of the lower back is enough, of which I send people for regularly and now after 30+ years can no longer count on my two hands how many I've had to send for further eval. and management when I find this. Glad you're Ok, glad I'm ok, hope we're both Ok for the long haul and also hope and pray that this buffalo kid has a complete recovery and gets to live a long normal life with or without a return to football. [/QUOTE]

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