My Heart Attack Scare: A Special Episode for Go Red for Women Month with the American Heart Association

The Stained Glass Podcast

Hello friends and welcome to Episode 4 of The Stained Glass Podcast. I’m your host, Jessica Spurlock. On today’s episode, you will hear about how God used a high pressure season of life to teach me there’s no shame in getting help.

At the beginning of 2022, a pressure-building situation was brewing in my life. Job situations, job changes, multiple surgeries for family members, homeschooling, pandemic, finances, etc. The pressure was building.

One year ago, Valentine’s weekend of 2021, my husband and I were on our way out of town for a day out together. As we began driving, I started having severe chest pains and needed to go to the ER for a suspected heart attack. (I had all the symptoms listed below)

If you are listening to me in real-time, today is Valentine’s Day 2023. February is GO RED FOR WOMEN month with the American Heart Association. Chest pain is nothing to mess around with. Even when the signs are subtle, the consequences can be deadly, especially if the person doesn’t get help right away. That’s why so many women die of heart disease, in fact it is the number one killer of women. Don’t be one of them.

If you have any of these signs, call 911 and get to a hospital right away:

• Uncomfortable pressure, squeezing, fullness or pain in the center of your chest. It lasts more than a few minutes, or goes away and comes back.
• Pain or discomfort in one or both arms, the back, neck, jaw or stomach
• Other signs such as breaking out in a cold sweat, nausea or lightheadedness

For more information, visit the American Heart Association’s website at heart.org or Go Red for Women’s website at goredforwomen.org. I want to encourage my listeners to donate to that cause to support the innovative research, education, and prevention services that protect the women we love. Let’s win this together!

One thing I would like you to do this week is to take a screenshot of you listening to this podcast and share it on your social media pages, tagging The Stained Glass Podcast. You can find me on Instagram @thestainedglasspodcast and on Facebook in The Stained Glass Podcast group.

In the premiere episode of The Stained Glass Podcast, we broke down the steps of making stained glass and applied to how God uses trials in our lives for his glory. In the next episode, I’ll be taking a deeper dive into the first step of God’s plan for our lives. We’ll go deeper into each step in future episodes. I pray this will be an encouragement, a help, and a blessing to you all. It drops in two weeks. Until then, this has been Jessica Spurlock with The Stained Glass Podcast. Go be a blessing!