
Getting to the heart
Mary Beth Schneider
Contributor
I should have died this past summer. Not the illness kind of death, but the drop-dead kind that makes everyone ask “What happened? She was so fit!” Thankfully, it wasn’t my time. I survived to share my story and alert women everywhere, young and old, of a dangerous, life-threatening condition that the medical community sometimes ignores in females.
I have always been an active person who slowly stopped playing tennis, pickleball and even my beloved