h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Well it's been a shitty four weeks. It started with my grandmother dying of a heart attack, to the suprise of everyone, and continues with the heart attack, subsequent 2 weeks in ICU, and death of my grandfather, to the surprise of no one.

To be honest, they were both a suprise to us all, but we had expected my grandfather ("Pop") to die for a long time. Mom related stories to me about how her and Dad had been worried on any number of occasions. This had happened at least a decade and a half ago, because that was when my father died of a massive heart attack about a week after his heart transplant.

But wait... there's more. My mom had quadruple bypass surgery this past June at the age of 52 (she hasn't had menopause yet). And my grandfather on my father's side died when my father was 6 of a massive heart attack right at the dinner table. Great Grandmother died of that too while camping some time before I was born.

This can mean only one thing: I'm going to make some cardiologist very happy.

By that I mean that I'm going to take the "go early, go often" approach. I will probably see my heart doctor more often than my dentist, which isn't very often, but is much more often than a 22 year old usually contimplates.