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May 2001
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Heart
Attack Warnings
by Tina F.
My older sister is now in her 50s. She had lived downstairs from me in this "old" Victorian house forever, just about all of my life. Even after my parents died and I married we still lived there. She and her husband lived downstairs and I and my husband lived in the upstairs apartment. The house is over 100 years old, and we know that during the 1940s and 1950s a doctor lived there and had a small, private practice there. After about 15 years after, I was married and our parents had died my sister and her husband decided to move out and she and her husband purchased a home of their own. I was very saddened by her moving, to say the least, I was really upset. It was a big change for me, but probably an even bigger change for her.
One morning, some months after they had moved out, while I was fixing breakfast in the kitchen I heard two men talking. It sounded like a faint radio talk show. They sounded as if they were making some sort of plan. It was so faint, I thought it might be coming from a car radio outside. But, very quickly one sentence came in really loud and clear. The one man said, "And SHE'S going to have a heart attack..." to the other man. There were other mumblings but I didn't make out anything else and that one sentence got me into a state of panic. I don't know why I panicked, but I felt that something was going to be terribly wrong. And my anxiety rose. And rose. And rose. It was very clear to everyone, except me, that I was experiencing great anxiety over my sister moving away. But I felt I had to let everyone know what I had heard, they all "concluded" it was because of the anxiety. In fact, my brother and my husband surely thought it was an "anxiety-induced hallucination." I just couldn't stop thinking about what I heard and for the next few weeks I was really upset about it and couldn't "forget." Of course, the thought did cross my mind that if I continue to have such anxiety, maybe I will surely have a heart attack from the stress!? Then, I had a dream, a real simple dream - where my mom (deceased) was standing there facing me, pleading, "SHE'S your sister, SHE'S your sister!" Well, I have TWO sisters and I couldn't make heads or tales out of that dream! It was so odd, and I still felt so anxiety ridden each day. Well, the months passed and a few months later my husband got a phone call from my brother saying my sister was in the hospital - yep, you guessed it - SHE had had a heart attack - not fatal, thank God - but she did need surgery to correct some blocked arteries.
I didn't realize it at the time - I was clearly being warned of my sister's heart attack, but I couldn't put all the pieces together properly to predict anything exactly. And also, it was as if I knew, but just couldn't or wasn't supposed to tell anyone: maybe I wasn't meant to "interfere" with the "grand scheme of things." I feel I was allowed to know ahead of time, I was not so shocked when the news came, but I was not allowed to warn her? Would anyone have believed me anyway? How do you tell someone you "heard" they are going to have a heart attack? It sounds ridiculous, to say the least. What I'm really trying to say is how sad - something known - but too vague in detail to do any good.
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