Sorry to hear about your heart attack but glad to hear you survived. For close to a year I was having heart pains almost daily but ignoring them. Last September I had a major heart attack at my island home. It took about 4 hours to get me off the island and to a major hospital. In the ambulance, I watched the monitors as I flat-lined multiple times (no pulse, no blood pressure, total respiratory failure). After emergency treatment, I was in the ICU for 10 days and in the hospital for a total of 22 days.

After another month of home health care, I started a cardio rehab class. It was the best thing in the world for me at the time. I started out fearful that any exercise at all would bring on another attack. In the cardio class, everyone wore a heart rate monitor and they continually checked blood pressure. I started out at the lowest level of the easiest machine for the shortest time.

As I gained strength and confidence, the cardio nurses allowed me to work harder and harder. I went to a total of 36 classes and was taught many things about heart care. They told me to "move, or die" so I bought a bicycle and have been riding ever since. I wear a Cateye heart rate monitor and my beta-blockers keep my heart rate way down, but I can ride up to 25 miles before seat pain stops my ride.

I hope you have a similar recovery or better! Beware of the depression that might follow. I got it and battle daily to keep moving.

Best of luck.