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   From: ratata@yeahright.fu   
      
   "That Chilean Guy" lamented:   
      
   > Turned out to be an anxiety attack, everything was fine and dandy   
   > (confirmed by a heart CAT scan). Then I saw the bill, and had the   
   > heart attack for real. Something like a month's worth of salary for a   
   > stay from 00:15 to 11:30. Fortunately after a couple of layers of   
   > insurance I only had to pay about a hundred bucks, but it was enough   
   > to shock me into a diet.   
      
   I feel your pain, dude.  I had a somewhat similar experience a few years   
   ago.  In my business, nothing kills like success.  F'real.  Two colleagues,   
   both in the $1,000,000+/year category have dropped in their tracks.  The   
   first one was 44 and developed some weird blood disease that only kills like   
   .8 percent of it's victims.  Killed him.  While driving.  The second one,   
   39, ushered in his second child and six days later died of a heart attack.   
   The guy was meaty, but certainly not fat.  After that second funeral I   
   started developing chest pains every fucking morning.  So I researched it   
   and found that most heart attacks occur in the morning.  In winter.  Now I   
   was really freaking out.  So I'm sitting in a restaurant and *bam* passed   
   out.  Ambulance and everything.  Anxiety attack.  But it was enough to get   
   me pretty much organic and two thirds vegetarian (only eat flesh during the   
   evening hours and only ingest red meat once or twice a month now).  Lost   
   twenty five pounds damn quick too.  Just the ambulance was $1100.  I won't   
   go in to how much the scans, ekg's, etc. cost, but it made the eleven   
   hundred up front seem like foreplay for the anal rape of the decade.   
      
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