| Although Leanne Busby has been a nurse for 35 years, she ignored the numbness in her arms, shortness of breath and nausea that she often experienced on her late night drives from Cumberland University, where she was the dean of the School of Nursing. She let the symptoms continue for a year, silently wondering from time to time if she might be having a heart attack.
I thought I had carpal tunnel syndrome, so I didn’t say anything about it to anyone,” she recalled.
She was 60 years old and without a family history of heart disease. However, she was a smoker and worked long days, which left little time for exercise. A visit to her nurse practitioner set in motion a series of events that ultimately saved her life. When she noticed that Busby’s blood pressure was elevated, she sent her to her primary care physician in Lebanon. He examined Busby and asked if anything else was bothering her.
“I told him my arms go numb from time to time,” she said. “I told him I had never had chest pain.” continued>> |
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