Survival Lessons from a Heart Attack

About the Book

In the context and perspective of a layman’s actual experience, this book comprehensively pictures all about a faulty diet-triggered heart attack leading to a two-stage, four-month gapped treatment that unexpectedly edged a (necessitated) open-chest operation to the brink of only a 30%-chance for survival— in the second stage. Medical-surgical expertise complemented with routines of clinical efficiencies predominated in steering it ultimately nonetheless to a greatly heartening end fruition of 100%-safe recovery. But this— by all indications— appears to have materialized only because of “a sort of miracle and thus God’s own will perhaps”— as what is also touched on in this book. This is prone to invite doubt, but going all through the book could lead only to conclusions of anything but skeptical thought. There is a saying, “To see is to believe,” and doing so now could only enable any reader to pick up and learn—in the author’s expressed thought: “nuggets of lessons useful in preserving everyone’s natural course of what could only be human beings’ God-animated mettle of longevity ensconced earthly as a gift of heredity, other factors disregarded.”

About the Author

Angel N. Pagaduan penned this book as a “lucky survivor” of a highly risky triple-bypass surgery. A perennial honor student and recipient of an “Outstanding Alumnus” award from Subic’s St. James High School in the Philippines, he was an associate editor of The Bay, his school literary organ. After over a dozen, variedly themed writings thru the years, he penned two other books: Subic (An Epochal Philippine Town the US Navy Helped Shape) in 2007 and How to Get “A” Grades in School in 2008— published respectively by PublishAmerica and Xlibris. He is a graduate of the University of the Philippines with a B.S.A. degree, major in economics, class ’54. After a 2-year stint with the (now defunct) Subic Bay U.S. Naval Base, he shifted to professional teaching spanning 11 years, followed by a longer tenure of economic research-oriented government work, which culminated with his retirement as comptroller in the Philippine National Bank in 1985. Giving up his interest in Subic politics’ open mayoral post of the time, he opted to immigrate instead to the U.S. in 1986. A CBEST-based substitute professional teaching credential holder, he retired from the Cal State Teachers Retirement System in 2004.