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I agree. Conspiracy theories are fun. But the fact he experienced chest pain for days leading up to his death, does seem to imply it was a true medical issue.
by jacurtis 4y ago
I agree. Conspiracy theories are fun. But the fact he experienced chest pain for days leading up to his death, does seem to imply it was a true medical issue.
It’s very possible his heart was moving in and out of AFIB for a few days and then finally gave out in the form of a heart attack.
He fought through it because it’s obviously the biggest few weeks of the year for his job (as a soccer journalist).
The fact that the pain was significant to write about it publicly in his newsletter implies that it was obviously getting pretty bad. Not just a passing chest pain. It was probably very bad.
It does question why better medical attention wasn’t given to him. If he had this pain for days leading up to a sudden attack, then it’s very sad because it was likely preventable.
- Ekaros 4y agoTo me it seems more that he wasn't willing to take the medical attention. Likely cause work seemed more important. 10 days of cold is pretty bad run and if it was getting worse and still kept pushing... I'm not sure if any sufficient care would have been accepted.
- newaccount74 4y agoI used to work as an ambulance driver, and people with heart attacks often had no idea. One time a patient even called a doctor, who visited him at home and told him it's probably just a stomach bug, but he should get it checked out in the hospital just to be sure. I was driving with an experienced colleague, who looked at the patient and said, that's no stomach bug. Turned out to be a severe heart attack, they immediately rushed him to the cardiac catheter lab at the hospital. Anyway, people die from heart attacks all the time because they don't realise what's going on before it's too late.