hello Designs, thanks for sharing....
I say 5 or 7 years more because he already had two prior heart attacks... so he already had a heriditary heart condition he was dealing with. I was making my own rough gestimate.
My mother told me that a heart attack is what took his life.... but after reviewing his medical records, there was no sudden heart attack, the tests showed there was no infection, no disease what so ever! the only trend i noticed was in his lab work (hemaglobin, hematocrit) his blood count was dropping by the day, everything else was normal..... then i noticed in the doctors notes that he kept asking my mom for consent for the blood transfusion. She refused over and over again. Then in one last note he states that he explained to the family that a blood transfusion was needed to save his life and that he would die without it and documented that the family understood the ramifications of the decision not to accept...
Afterwards he went downhill.... into cardiac arrest. dried up like a prune in the hospital bed... If my mother ever gets sick the way my father did and I have to make the decision, im going to make sure she gets blood.