Mrs. H. was in her mid 80's when her husband died.
I admired her as she provided loving care for him
"in sickness and in health" right up to the end.
Despite his expected and comfortable demise, his death broke her heart.
It was like the painting of Mother Mary with a stabbed and bleeding heart.
Mrs. H. began having trouble breathing, leg swelling, and profound weakness.
I suspected what was wrong and ordered an echocardiogram.
Science proves the heart is a powerful pump,
but history portrays it as the seat of emotion.
As a pump, one heart moves about 2,000 gallons of blood each day
and about 3 super tankers in a lifetime through
60,000 miles of veins, arteries, and capillaries.
The largest artery is the size of a garden hose
while the smallest capillary is the size of a human hair split ten times.
As a seat of emotion, the heart was described by Greek Aristotle 2500 years ago as,
"the center for intelligence, motion, and sensation,
while the brain, liver, and lungs are there to cool down the heart."
Seven-hundred years later Roman Galen wrote,
"The heart is the organ related to the soul."
Eight-hundred years after that, Persian Avicenna wrote,
"The heart is the root of nutrition, apprehension, breath,
and the source of intelligence for all other organs."
Others in medieval Europe claimed the heart,
"Gives rise to anger, passion, fear, sadness, or joy."
We still romanticize that the heart has something to do with emotions.
This is patterned in hearts by lovers during Valentine's Day;
by H. Jackson Brown Jr. when he said,
"Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye;"
by Princess Diana when she said,
"Only do what your heart tells you;"
or by right-wing political pundits who critically term
empathetic left-wingers as "bleeding heart liberals".
However, the emotional connection to the heart became
more than romancing and metaphor when Japanese physicians
described Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy or "Broken Heart Syndrome" in 1990.
A life-threatening and dilating heart weakness can follow severe loss
such as the death of spouse or even the devastating experience of a critical illness.
Diagnosed by echocardiogram, the heart swells
into the shape of a Japanese octopus-fishing pot.
Mrs. H's heart echo proved the diagnosis,
and she was treated and relieved by diuretics.
However, the ultimate cure came as she mended
her own broken heart with new friends, positive thoughts,
and some time to allow a cleansing grief flow over and past her.
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