On November 3rd 2008, I woke up with pain in my chest and epigastric area. I passed it off as my gastrointestinal reflux disease and tried to go on with my day. At about 2pm the pain started to get much worse to the point where I passed out in severe pain. My sister dialed 911 not knowing what was going on.

When I got to the hospital they said I was having a massive heart attack and they started popping all of these pills in my mouth and trying to keep me awake. They rushed me to do a cardiac catheterization and found that I had 2 100% blocked arteries(lima-lad, and svg-om1). I was immediately rushed to the operating room and had emergency open heart surgery to having a double bypass. On 11-20-08 I returned to the hospital with severe chest pain and went back to the operating room having a pericardial window for fluid around my heart.

Now to this date I have been admitted to the hospital 5 times besides those first two times for cholesistitis(inflammation of the gallbladder),and just recently for pericarditis (inflammation of the lining of the heart) and for having more fluid around my heart again, thankfully not enough to have to have another surgery. And I was just released from the hospital and put on steroids and anti-inflammatory meds and pain pills, along with my meds for high blood pressure aspirin cholesterol pills nexium for my gerd and a stool softener to help keep me right.

I am scared. I don’t understand why all of this is happening to me. I have a few risk factors and some family history of heart problems and now the doctors are talking about a auto-immune disease. I feel like everyone is jumping at straws and they don’t understand why a person as young as me is having all of these heart problems.

Now I am dealing with outrageous stress problems and severe depression on top of the heart problems. I truly don’t believe that I am going to make it to 35 and with the depression I don’t know if I really even want or desire to live anymore. I would just like for someone to help me and let me know what to do to get past this. I don’t have my mother anymore she died 3 months before I had my heart attack at age 55 from breast cancer and my father died when I was 15 of heart and kidney problems at the age of 53. Am I destine to dye at a early age from all of this that I am going through?