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    Sacred Heart Attack | Sacrée Crise Cardiaque: A Dramatic Account of an American Heart Attack Victim in Montreal
    Sacred Heart Attack | Sacrée Crise Cardiaque: A Dramatic Account of an American Heart Attack Victim in Montreal
    Sacred Heart Attack | Sacrée Crise Cardiaque: A Dramatic Account of an American Heart Attack Victim in Montreal
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    Sacred Heart Attack | Sacrée Crise Cardiaque: A Dramatic Account of an American Heart Attack Victim in Montreal

    By Jimmy Locklear

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    Even though I knew how the story would end, I couldnt stop reading once I started. Jimmy narrates with attention to detail and with emotional vulnerability. I felt I was right there with him at each step of his journey.

    Carolyn J. Hansen, writer and creative director; Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico

    Sacred Heart Attack gives an insiders view of a process filled with tension, fear, and miracle. You can just about feel the slushy cold mixture of iodine and alcohol cascading over the chest, hear the incessant beeping of the monitors, and sense the gratitude for dedicated caregivers. Locklear looks beneath the surface of one of lifes most difficult experiences to find the strong hands of God carrying him through each hour of each day.

    Rev. Claude Marshall, pastor, James River Community Church; Suffolk, Virginia

    Nothing is easyneither living or enduring and recuperating from a heart attack, as Jimmy Locklear writes in his insightful book, Sacred Heart Attack. Finding meaningand hopeis just one part of this story. For Jimmy also shows a commitment to not only his personal story but the story of others involved in this process. He does not give himself to despair or bitterness. In fact, he perseveres to the end. In so doing he invites the reader to join him in his story and to make it part of their story. It is a wonderful experience.

    Barry J. McLeish, author of Successful Marketing Strategies for Nonprofit Organizations; Deerfield, Wisconsin

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateJul 16, 2013
    ISBN9781490800530
    Sacred Heart Attack | Sacrée Crise Cardiaque: A Dramatic Account of an American Heart Attack Victim in Montreal
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    Jimmy Locklear

    Jimmy Locklear has a passion for spiritual topics associated with living from our true selves. His second book, Heart Journey, was published in 2013. Locklear is married and father of three sons. He is a church elder and Atlanta Salon member. A native of Chattanooga, he and his wife, Jenny, live in Atlanta.

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      Sacred Heart Attack | Sacrée Crise Cardiaque - Jimmy Locklear

      Copyright © 2013 James R. Locklear.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      WestBow Press

      A Division of Thomas Nelson & Zondervan

      1663 Liberty Drive

      Bloomington, IN 47403

      www.westbowpress.com

      1 (866) 928-1240

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Photo of author by Jennifer Locklear.

      ISBN: 978-1-4908-0052-3 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4908-0054-7 (hc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4908-0053-0 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2013911925

      WestBow Press rev. date: 1/19/2016

      Contents

      Part One

      Chapter 1 The Mystery of Chest Pains

      Chapter 2 Wide Awake

      Chapter 3 Don't Worry

      Chapter 4 Everyone Is Shocked

      Chapter 5 Of Stents and God's Providence

      Chapter 6 That Heart-Attack Feeling Again

      Chapter 7 Hospital Life

      Chapter 8 Visitors and Connections

      Chapter 9 Moving Day

      Chapter 10 Blessed Sunday

      Chapter 11 Cardiac Choices and Perspectives

      Chapter 12 Saying Thank You

      Chapter 13 To Discharge or Not to Discharge?

      Chapter 14 Beginning of the New Normal

      Chapter 15 Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

      Chapter 16 Travel Day

      Part Two Cardiac Rehab:

               The Journey to Wholeness

      Chapter 17 January 15, 2013

      Chapter 18 Sweet Sleep. NOT

      Chapter 19 In Search of a Cardiologist

      Chapter 20 Slow Motion

      Chapter 21 Meeting My Cardiologist

      Chapter 22 Relational Re-Entry: Who knows and who doesn't?

      Chapter 23 Chicken, Chili and Cornbread

      Chapter 24 Health by the Numbers

      Chapter 25 What about all of that running?

      Chapter 26 My February 7, 2013 Reflection

      Chapter 27 Dazed and Confused

      Chapter 28 Medical Realities

      Chapter 29 Cardiac Rehab Exercise

      Chapter 30 Enough of This!

      Chapter 31 Running and writing

      Chapter 32 Fellow travellers

      Chapter 33 Atlanta's Peachtree Road Race On the 4th of July

      Chapter 34 Living with revised expectations

      The word lifts us up and makes us see that our daily, ordinary lives are, in fact, sacred lives that play a necessary role in the fulfillment of God's promises. ---Henri Nouwen

      Dedication

      To my wife Jenny; sons Jameson, Justin, and Jed; and daughter-in-law, Bethany, who love everything that I write. Thank you for your love and support through all of my sacred experiences.

      . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. ---2 Corinthians 4:7 (NIV ©1978)

      Acknowledgements

      While this book was written in a few short weeks with the help of a very small group of people, it was the result of years of encouragement and support from family and friends who believed that my story was important to share. Whether they know it or not, friends like Dustin Britt and Barry McLeish have spoken powerfully and strategically into my life and said that I had helpful and wise things to share. The men who were in a small group with me a couple of years ago helped me see that God was speaking through me at different times through my story and experience. And as risky as that was, Clell Deaver, Steve Yang and John Tinnin were not shy to share the impact my words had on them and they pushed me to share more. Larry Bolden, John Arnold and Tal Prince trusted my heart and helped me grow in many areas of my life over the past three years. I am grateful for all of these men.

      I also want to thank my Facebook friends who were so responsive to my initial sharing of my heart attack story on jimmylocklear.com. To Claude Marshall, Carolyn Hansen, Craig Perry, Doris Masterson Jenkins and David Harris who were quick to show their support of my writing, I give my heartfelt thanks.

      I would also like to thank my new friends at WestBow Press who have given me the support, advice and professional help I needed to complete this project.

      I would be remiss not to mention the strong friendship of Curt Armstrong who has been my co-laborer for the past few years in L'Arche and with whom I have shared the joys and struggles of my heart and life. Also, Curt was my traveling companion in Montreal who put his interests aside to serve me and advocate on my behalf while I was in the hospital. Curt is the kind of friend that any of us would be blessed to have. Nathan Ball inspired me as he led our workshop, came with me to the hospital and led my L'Arche friends in reflection and prayer for me the morning after my heart attack. Nathan also shared my story with friends of the Henri Nouwen Society in a special Easter letter that witnessed to the mentoring I had received from Henri's writings.

      My friends Paola Barrera and Gustavo Ruiz were loving and generous to me. They will forever be a part of this story.

      The doctors, nurses and staff of Sacred Heart Hospital of Montreal who acted quickly and compassionately to save my life and care for me as more than a patient, but a friend. Especially Dr. Thierry Charron and Dr. Guy Lalonde were insightful, courageous and professional in implementing solutions for my crisis event. Again, I never felt like a stranger or foreigner from the minute I stepped into the hospital until the day I left.

      Finally, I thank my parents, my siblings Billy, Debbie and Jody, my extended family and church for their prayers and love during my hospital stay and convalescence at home in Atlanta. And my wife Jenny and our sons to whom this book is dedicated have always encouraged me to write and share what was most important to me.

      Preface

      When I first learned about the opportunity to participate in the fund-raising workshop for L'Arche USA and L'Arche Canada in Montreal, I was so excited. Not only did I like the idea of visiting Montreal, but I had grown to love and respect the L'Arche community, and in some small ways, I had contributed to the style and substance of its emerging fund-raising approach.

      L'Arche, the Ark in French, is a high-impact international federation of over 140 communities worldwide whose mission is to build community with people of all abilities and to help our society imagine the human family differently, inspiring others to similar initiatives. We do this primarily through small homes where three adults with intellectual disabilities and three assistants share life together, living in the manner of a family, trusting God and living fully engaged lives in the larger community. Each L'Arche community is a grassroots, local effort and L'Arche Atlanta opened our first home in August of 2012.

      My friend and coworker Curt Armstrong was executive director of L'Arche Atlanta, and he was going to ask our board if he and I could attend the fund-raising conference in early January 2013, which was about four months away. The board ultimately said yes.

      As the conference got closer, Curt and I began to make our travel plans. Curt and his wife, Anne Christine, had decided to fly to Montreal three days early to see a bit of the city prior to the conference. Anne Christine was born in France and Curt had lived in France for many years, so they planned to stay in Old Montreal where there were the most traditional of French hotels, shops, and restaurants.

      I decided to arrive a couple of days before the conference in the hopes of doing a bit of sightseeing with Atlanta friends who were now living in Montreal and with whom I had maintained a connection via Facebook. Paola attended university in Atlanta about 10+ years ago and was a friend of our family. She and her husband Gustavo Ruiz (Gus for short) had immigrated to Canada from Venezuela a year before and were still enjoying exploring the city. I would be the benefactor of their exuberance.

      Of course, I had no idea what the next ten days would hold when I boarded my plane in Atlanta early Saturday morning, January 5, 2013. I had boots, flannel-lined pants, a heavy coat, and a faux fur lumberjack cap for the cold, snowy Montreal weather

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