Healthcare is one of the country’s biggest problems. Probably only second to Climate Change and right in front of voter and women suppression. Of course the order will depend on who you talk to. The reason I put healthcare so high is that it is not everyone that dies and is brought back to life like I was. As I see it I have 2 birthdays. One is where I was actually born in 1953 and then the day I was brought back to life Labor Day weekend 4 years ago.

It was the Sunday before Labor Day and my wife and I had had a wonderful day. We had a beautiful morning sail followed by a cookout at home. It was pretty much the perfect day. That evening I knew that something was wrong with me so I told my wife that I thought I should go to the hospital. I had no chest pains, no fever, and no cold sweats. I just knew that something was wrong. Being only 5 minutes from the hospital we got in the car and that is the last thing I remember. The next thing I remember was waking up in the ICU on Tuesday as they were doing a brain evolution on me so see if I was worthwhile operating on. Turns out unbeknownst to me I had a full blown heart attack right there in the car in front of our home. My wife called 911 and got me out of the car and began performing CPR on me. The police were the first ones on the scene and took over the CPR from my wife. After 6 minutes the EMTs got there and got my heart started. I am told that it stopped again on the way to the ER and they had to start in again. I spent 19 days in the ICU because of open heart surgery and some complications. After 14 days in rehab facility I was allowed to come home were my wife and dog and of course other family and friends assisted me on my road to recovery.

I have always wondered if I would have lived if I didn’t have good healthcare insurance. I often wonder how many people have died because they didn’t have healthcare. My younger brother died in his 50s and he had no healthcare. I always wondered if we would have had Universal Healthcare if he would have gotten the proper care early enough that he would be alive today. He lived a life that he would have described as being free, working for no real employer, but in the end is it that freedom that killed him. Is it that need for healthcare that makes so that many of us not really free to move around and do what we truly want to do? To live as freely as my bother did? I would think that Universal Healthcare would give a person more freedom than a gun ever could.

I have had many people tell me that the reason that I did not die was because god was not through with me. Not being the most religious person in the world, in fact some people may call me a downright heathen; I found that a little farfetched. It did make me think about what I was leaving behind when I did finally die. I know I have two great sons and four wonderful grandchildren but have I really made a difference? That is what made me start writing. I had never written anything in my life but I knew that the country was headed in a direction that I didn’t like at all and I had to do something. I came up with the name “I Could Be Wrong” because no one is always right, even me. No matter how hard I try I will make mistakes so I could be wrong. I picked up the book “Blogging For Dummies” and away I went. It will be one year this month that I started my blog. It has taken patience to try and get people to view it. Last November 83 people viewed it and last month over 9700 people viewed it. Hopefully, someday 100,000 people will view it. Now when people tell me that God was not through with me I don’t say anything but I think about my blog. Wouldn’t be funny if I really was being inspired by something other than myself.

Every day I look at the scar on my chest and get reminded how lucky I was. I had great First Responders, great medical care, and a GREAT wife that worked hard so I can still be here and write this. Healthcare should be everyone’s right, the wife, you will have to get on your own. Mines taken.