It's The Big One

As the days push toward my birthday, I can't help but realize how thankful I am to be alive. I am fixing to be thirty nine and, I almost didn't make it past thirty seven. I think a heart attack, since I survived it, is one of the best things that happened to me. I use to be a heavy smoker. I smoked two to three packs a day. I thought there was no way that I would ever quit. I even told people that wanted me to quit that I couldn't be delivered from cigarettes because, I didn't want to quit. I want everyone to know that the day I quit was the same day I had my heart attack. My doctor that saved my life, told me that the number one cause of heart disease is smoking. He told me that same three times while I was in the Ronnie Green Heart Center at Northeast Georgia Medical Center. The way that he told me this, and my fear of having another one soon, made me quit. I had some help from a drug call chantix also, but I did it. The woman that I am seeing now is allergic to smoke. I would never had met this woman if I had still been smoking. I believe everything happens for a reason. You don't always know the reason, but there is a reason for everything. I think everything that happens is part of God's perfect plan. Some of the things that happens is bad when you look at it from mans eyes but, if you look at from my point of view, bad things that happen can change lives where nothing else would have worked. God changed my life with a heart attack and I am very thankful for it. I will be thirty nine soon and I can't wait to see what is ahead of me.