Though I personally almost died from whooping cough at age 2 and then from a concussion and seizures from age 10 to 15, mostly my health was perfect in many ways from age 15 to about 45 when I started to have more serious problems at this point. Then I had (what doctors called then "a Panic Attack" they said when I went to the hospital. However, my experience was not that at all. My experience was not being able to walk at all so I had to crawl along the ground to get to the bathtub to put some water in so that I might die there in peace. This was my experience at that time. So, for me, this was sort of out of the blue and something new for me to deal with. However, it is also true that I had two injuries around age 37 but they were from Rock climbing and skiing but neither did I feel was going to kill me at the time. However, I was still a little into youthful immortality then too because my health had been relatively perfect since I was 15 and I climbed mountains and surfed and skied and hiked and jogged about 1 to 5 miles a day to stay in shape and often walked up to 20 to 25 miles over the weekend at some wilderness location in California (mountains, deserts, or at the ocean in California from about age 16 onward when I first bought my first car in 1964. Plus Gas was not expensive then at about 17 cents a gallon with minimum wage being just over a dollar. So, you could at least get 5 gallons of gas then by working somewhere one hour which was a lot of distance for a teenager then to get anyplace cool in your car (mountains for skiing, ocean for surfing or deserts for riding off road motorcycles).
So, there were injuries like ripping the muscles off the back of my right knee and falling about 50 to 100 feet into the ocean while rock climbing and then almost drowning there near Big Sur because my right leg didn't work because it was injured in the waves swimming to shore from the side of the cliff I was climbing then into the ocean with muscles torn off the back of my right knee from a rock climbing move that I could have made in my 20s but not at 37 in that particular moment.
Then I was skiing from Bunny Flat down to 7 mile curve on Mt. Shasta and I hit ice and I thought I could recover but then I hit another patch of ice and did the splits and ripped my hamstring muscle in my left leg. So, then I had to drag my left leg for about 6 months because I couldn't afford an operation then on my hamstring partly because I was raising 4 kids at that time and I couldn't afford to get health insurance for me then even though we owned two or more businesses then.
And both of these injuries were when I was around 37 years old within a couple of years of each other and both made me realize I was getting older and I couldn't do what I had done in my teens and 20s anymore sometimes (depending upon the day).
So, between ages 37 and 45 I had to start thinking about staying alive more. So, after my "panic Attack" I knew something wasn't right with my heart (even though the hospital thought I had a panic attack) I knew it was something more serious than this. However, I did learn more that I and members of my family on my Dad's side did all pretty much have irregular heartbeats. So, this was likely a factor here. But, people didn't die in my family of heart attacks at all. But, my uncle died from complications of an irregular heart beat in his mid 70s. My aunt had this problem too but she got better medical advice than my uncle and lived into her late 80s.
So, i was beginning to see that living past around 45 or 50 might be a chore for me and it was. However, about this same time age 46 I met my present wife (we have been together 31 years so far and she was my Saving Grace because she had much more medical knowledge than I simply because her uncle was a Heart Specialist in North Carolina.
So, she insisted after we got married that I have full health care insurance and this saved my life and my finances by age 50 when I got a heart virus and almost died. And since almost dying at age 50 from Fall of 1998 to may of 1999 I have been struggling to stay alive ever since.
However, somehow God and Angels have always come through to keep me alive through many near death experiences until now at age 77.
The point is: "If you don't take care of your health by 40 to 50 then you could be gone at literally any time.
And one of the biggest causes of death over 40 I notice is people pretending they are still 25 years old when they are 40 or more.
This kills so many people I have noticed. Staying alive is a type of mental and emotional discipline which if you aren't working pretty hard on staying alive then you don't
By God's Grace
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