I came across this parking garage ticket yesterday in a pair of jeans I hadn’t worn in the past six months. I thought, “That’s odd; usually, you turn these things in when you exit the garage.” Then I noticed the time stamp.
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Thanksgiving
In Light at the End of the Tunnel (read now if you haven’t yet), I described the challenge my doctor faced as I lay on a continuous x-ray machine in a space-age operating room at the Brigham on Friday, June 15. A cholesterol plaque had ruptured in my right coronary artery five days earlier at the finish line of the Light at the End of the Tunnel Marathon. The resulting clotting triggered by the rupture had resulted in an undetected myocardial infarction (a heart attack).
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At 7 AM on Sunday, June 9th, I set out on what would prove to be the prophetically-named Light at the End of the Tunnel Marathon. By the end of the day, I would be a Boston Marathon qualifier and a heart attack survivor.
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