10 Life Lessons from a Survivor of Cardiac Arrest

TOP 10 LESSONS FROM MY ABORTED SUDDEN DEATH EXPERIENCE

In August, Jeffrey Feig, a 50-year-old financial executive in Manhattan and father of three young sons, became one of the more than 350,000 Americans who each year suffer a sudden cardiac arrest. His heart went into an erratic and ineffective rhythm and he stopped breathing.

But unlike 90 percent of people similarly afflicted, Mr. Feig not only lived to tell the tale but survived his near-death experience without any damage to his heart muscle or his brain, an outcome rarely seen following an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

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Thus begins a New York Times article that tells Jeff’s story.

Here are Jeff’s Life Lessons — as posted on his public facebook page.

Worthwhile life lessons indeed.

1. See your doctors regularly, you idiot. Three years…