{"id":73,"date":"2005-10-31T07:29:56","date_gmt":"2005-10-31T12:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=73"},"modified":"2008-01-28T09:11:25","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T17:11:25","slug":"what-to-do-when-your-heart-gives-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2005\/10\/31\/what-to-do-when-your-heart-gives-out\/","title":{"rendered":"What to do when your heart gives out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keep walking. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mywesttexas.com\/site\/news.cfm?newsid=15482048&#038;BRD=2288&#038;PAG=461&#038;dept_id=563016&#038;rfi=6\">Here&#8217;s a story by a 40-something hiker whose heart <\/a>  almost failed on him in the past couple  years. Walking seven miles with 500 feet of climb is a really big deal if you&#8217;re a candidate for a heart transplant. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All I know is that 12 months ago, a cardiologist told me I would likely one day be a heart transplant candidate and then he sent me on my way with a handful of medicine. Six months ago I had a needle in my jugular and a scope in my lungs. And this weekend I stood amid the beauty that is God&#8217;s creation. And I can tell you a bed of fallen leaves is much better than the kind of bed you lie in, in a hospital. Even if you have to walk a little ways to get there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I always know it&#8217;s time to slow down when my heart&#8217;s beating fast enough that I can hear it. Much cheaper than one of those heart monitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keep walking. Here&#8217;s a story by a 40-something hiker whose heart almost failed on him in the past couple years. Walking seven miles with 500 feet of climb is a really big deal if you&#8217;re a candidate for a heart&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2005\/10\/31\/what-to-do-when-your-heart-gives-out\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}