#heartbreak syndrome

[h4m1lt0ns]

hey i love ur writing! can i ask how many parts there’ll be for the max verstappen fic? thank you 💕💕

i dont know honestly we’ll see as it goes

[meowlexandragrace]

Heartbreak Syndrome

Written and Directed by Alexandra Davis

[newstfionline]

I Thought It Was Just Stress, Until It Broke My Heart

By Wendy Wolfson, NPR, September 27, 2014

That Friday, I was dizzy and sick to my stomach with what felt like food poisoning, only sometimes my chest throbbed. I declined my husband’s offer of a ride to the emergency room because I had to prepare for a crucial school meeting on Monday.

Our six-year-old son, a gifted child with a disability, had been repeatedly sent home for eloping from class and disruptive behavior. The school had laid a paper trail to ship him to a more restrictive program across town, but I was blocking the exits. My goal for Monday was to keep him in his class and get him support to develop coping skills. I was afraid he would learn to hate school.

While I liked my new job, day care kept evaporating. One after-school program kicked our son out without notice while my husband was out of the country. Our kid had already trashed the other semi-affordable options. Hey, but what working mom isn’t stressed? It seemed that whenever I solved one problem, another wrapped a tentacle around my leg to drag me down.

The day before I got sick, I received emails that another school parent had been circulating for months, making our son out to be a menace to society and lobbying to have him removed from school.

At the Monday meeting, we were congratulated on our son’s progress. He was welcomed to second grade, where he would receive a trained aide. I was relieved.

But I could feel my heartbeat flicker erratically. It didn’t hurt, but it wasn’t normal, so after work I asked my husband to take me to the emergency room. A burly nurse with a tattooed neck joked during the electrocardiogram. But his expression changed as he looked at the screen. With breathtaking speed I was hoisted onto a gurney, stripped, wrapped in a hospital gown, had an IV jammed in each arm and was pumped full of heparin.

Somebody told me I was having a heart attack.

“Your troponin levels are rising,” said a doctor who resembled a hedgehog with glasses. “It’s a protein your heart gives off when it is damaged.” People kept asking me about chest pain, but I had none.

“I’m sorry for leaving you with the kids!” I called to my husband as EMTs rolled me away.

An echocardiogram showed that my left ventricle had ballooned and the tip of my heart wasn’t working. I was scheduled for an angiogram the next morning. Any artery blockage, and I’d get a stent.

On Tuesday I lay sedated in a chilly operating room while a cardiologist snaked a probe through a vein in my right wrist straight to my heart. The last time I got narcotics this good was when I gave birth to the twins.

I woke up afterward with my right wrist in a splint, but no stent in my heart. The cardiologist looked pleased. “Your arteries are completely clear,” he said.

I was shocked. My dad had a heart attack at 40, but he was a smoker. I was in my early 50s, and I knew that with less estrogen my risk of heart disease was rising. What I didn’t realize is that symptoms of a heart attack in women are different from those in men.

But it turned out that I hadn’t had a heart attack at all. Instead, it was a rare condition called Takotsubo cardiomyopathy or “heartbreak syndrome” that mimics one.

The cardiologist said he saw perhaps 25 cases a year out of hundreds of heart patients. Triggered by intense emotional or physical stress, the left heart ventricle distends to resemble the shape of a traditional Japanese octopus trap. Cases tend to spike after earthquakes and hurricanes, particularly in women past menopause.

I hadn’t experienced an earthquake. I had been internalizing too much stress for too long. The doc told me that my heart now pumped at only two-thirds of normal capacity, but that the damage would likely heal within months.

And a few months since being takotsubo-ed, I am stronger. Our son’s behavior has been stellar in second grade. He adores his teacher. A trained “class substitute” helps everybody out; and both our children have made new friends in the city after-school program that welcomes all kinds of kids.

The poison-letter writer moved out of the district. One parent invited my son to join his child’s Aikido dojo. A neighbor offered help with after-school pickup.

I have used my reprieve to take my kids to the beach as often as possible. I wear a red bikini under my rash guard. Yoga irks me, but I’m trying to touch my toes anyway. Retraining the stress response of a lifetime is difficult, but it helps to remind myself what I can’t control and what I can.

My heart’s got to keep going for another 30 or 40 years.

[h4m1lt0ns]

hi! i’m so sorry if this isn’t the right way to do this, but is there any chance i could be added to the tag list for “heartbreak syndrome”? i’m obsessed with it and would love to be able to know every time a new chapter is posted!!!

don’t worry babe i’ll add u ofc 🩷

[internight]

You know what I thought was ridiculous?

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy 

But now

not so much.

[imstalin-blog]

Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy

You know how you hear someone dying of a broken heart? Well it's actually more literal than you think.

"Tako-Tsubo" is japanese for "Octopus Pot" which is a sort of trap to catch octopuses.

Cardiomyopathy is a Chronic Disease of the Heart Muscle.

Basically, when you experience moments of extreme stress, you're heart begins to fail. This can be continuous non-stop anxiety, the ending of a personal relationship or the loss of a loved one. Essentially, you're so filled with Epinephrine and Adrenaline that is just ceases to work. That sucks.  

[meowlexandragrace]

This past Saturday I casted my film! AGH! It's for real guys! 

[songuszq-blog]

Why Don't You Love Me? I'm the Best Choice: Repairing Heartache, Finding the Right Mate

Why Don't You Love Me? I'm the Best Choice: Repairing Heartache, Finding the Right Mate There really IS someone out there, just for YOU!! How many times have you told yourself "this is the right (man or woman) I truly want to spend my life with," only to be disappointed. once again? If you want to put an end to the "heartbreak syndrome" and find that perfect partner AT LAST, this book is for you! Learn how to discover who "you" really are, and what you really want in a lifetime partner. Then follow author Debi Davis' easy steps for manifesting your mate. For those who feel trapped in a relationship that isn't working yet are afraid to let go, Davis will help you take those important steps to free yourself and move on, with courage and faith that the right partner really is there for you when you are ready to receive them. Why Don't You Love Me? I'm the Best Choice: Repairing Heartache, Finding the Right Mate

[h4m1lt0ns]

Hey, hope you are doing alright!! Sending you much love 💖

oh my god YOURE ONE OF MY FAV PPL ON HERE ILY 🩷

[h4m1lt0ns]

things i am not; okay

like hi hello i think you dropped your crown 👑

i stan the baddies you have created and i stan you

will you keep gracing me with your presence by adding me to your forever tag list for literally anything you do?

seriously tho i love all your work, thank you for sharing 🖤

THANK YOU SO MUCH I LOVE YOU SO MUCH 🩷🩷🩷

[h4m1lt0ns]

i’d like to thank the universe for creating you, and i’d like to thank you for creating heartbreak syndrome ❤️

ilysm omfg 🩷🥹🩷🥹

[h4m1lt0ns]

the way im so invested in fake drama is actually so wild to me. girl pls never stop writing ur literally so funny and i love it so so much

no bc i be so invested too like it’s not my own story?? my mind shocks me sometimes lmao

[h4m1lt0ns]

i've re-read heartbreak syndrome like 3 times in the past week! i don't even f1 like that; your story is just that good.

∧,,,∧ (  ̳• · • ̳) /    づ♡ I love you

thank you so so much 🩷🥹 i love u too

[h4m1lt0ns]

Hi

Can I please get added to “heartbreak syndrome” taglist please ?

I really like the series

of course !🩷

[h4m1lt0ns]

I just read your heartbreak syndrome series and now I have personal beef with Max Verstappen 😒

Y/n and Lewis are endgame all the way... can't wait for the drama.💅

Love your writing can't believe it took me so long to discover ur blog as a lewis girlie 🥲

no bc me too ?? we all ship lewy/n 🤭

[h4m1lt0ns]

girl i NEED more heartbreak syndrome im OBSESSED

ITS COMMING !!!