I didn't know at the time but all my dads side has had open heart surgeries. His side of the family was largely unknown to me growing up and it sucks that it took this to realize how much of a risk I had. But at least I'm alive. I was told many times that I had high cholesterol but just shrugged it off. I guess its strange but you really don't know how much something like that can mess you up your arteries.

What sucks is that I was doing my first Test cycle ever so that when it happened my wife blamed it on that. I tried to explain to her the facts but she thinks that increased blood in my body from the test, plus the narrowing arteries were a recipe for disaster. I don't know. I did take for a very long time protein powders and I'm assuming that probably jacked up my cholesterol even more. Not sure. Anyways, I love just being alive. My heart doctor said that my great fitness is the only thing that kept me from dying. He said my cario was excellent and when he did a fit test on me 6 months after the heart attack he said that I did better than just normal (ie no history of heart attack) people that try the test. So I'm happy.