Yeah, glad to hear you're still with us!

As for "so that's what a heart attack feels like," I had a narrow band of pain that went all the way across the top of my chest that woke me up in the middle of the night. I got up out of bed and walked around the house for a bit and it went away so I tried ignoring it and went back to bed. But it woke me up again as the sun was coming up. I called 911 and they came and took me to the hospital. They stuck that little sensor on my finger to measure the oxygen level and I was sitting at 88%; they want high 90's or even 100.

They went to put a stent in and the doc said, "I can't fix this. We'll need to do a bypass." Ended up doing a quadruple bypass. Afterwards, my oxygen level was at 99% so we all felt confident. That was back in July, 2014 and everything's been fine ever since. Knock on wood! I now take medicine for afib but that's it.

And yeah, don't ignore what your body is telling you. It's smarter than you think.