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The Power of Boundaries
Sharing personal information brings people closer together. But how do you know when you’ve gone too far—or when someone else has ulterior motives?
Sharing personal information brings people closer together. But how do you know when you’ve gone too far—or when someone else has ulterior motives?
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My Primary Care Manager at the VA
Caught it during my yearly physical. She ordered a routine EKG (I am age 60) so she would have one on file for a baseline, and it showed a left brachial branch block (an electrical distribution issue in the heart). I had no symptoms.
She then ordered an echo cardiogram which revealed the left ventricle atrophy. She then ordered a sleep study because sleep apnea can cause heart issues and the diagnosis was mild sleep apnea and central sleep apnea.
That is how it was found out because I had no symptoms.