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Congratulations to our presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden!
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In reply to the discussion: I had a heart attack several years ago. I am perfectly fine. [View all]yardwork
(61,729 posts)17. I didn't say our situations are comparable.
I'm simply speaking out against automatic assumptions that having a heart attack means that you have to stop working.
I had to fight against this bias after my heart attack. Worrying that people would count me out and that I might even lose my job just because of people's uninformed assumptions caused me more stress than the event itself.
Everybody's situation is different. Please don't assume that having a heart attack is necessarily a dire thing. It may not be.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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I agree that everybody is different. I'm just speaking out against automatic assumptions.
yardwork
Oct 2019
#14
He'll be out there campaigning soon and people will get a chance to judge for themselves.
Aaron Pereira
Oct 2019
#16
We are not all stamped out of the same machine. I am 73 and am more healthy than any of my family
wasupaloopa
Oct 2019
#18
an epal had a small heart attack, his chiropractor told him to go to the dr. he had no idea. minor.
pansypoo53219
Oct 2019
#33
Congrats on your full recovery. Take it favorably that your coworkers are protective of you.
iluvtennis
Oct 2019
#34
Every person is different, every cardiac event is different, every prognosis is different
Baclava
Oct 2019
#35
That's my point. Don't automatically assume and reject based on this one thing.
yardwork
Oct 2019
#47
Well there is no guarantee Biden wouldn't have another aneurysm, he has had 2 of them, but
vsrazdem
Oct 2019
#40
Do what? Elizabeth Warren's criticism of Obama, TPP, NAFTA, her "Economic Patriotism," etc.,
Hoyt
Oct 2019
#55
I agree that we need much more regulation. Warren's approach makes sense to me.
yardwork
Oct 2019
#58