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YARD WORK…   I GET IT. IT’S BEEN A LONG SEASON AND IF WE LOOK AROUND, THERE’S ENOUGH REASON, TO GRAB A RAKE AND GET SQUEEZIN’   HOWEVER, IT’S THESE TRANSITION TIMES OF YEAR, THAT I SEE CERTAIN INJURIES AND HEAR STORIES WHICH I’M NOT TRYING TO MAKE YOU FEAR OF GETTING OUTSIDE TO WORK, BUT I WANT TO MAKE SURE YOU ARE  CLEAR ON A COUPLE OF STORIES AND INJURIES AND STORIES AND I SEE AND  HEAR...    A RETIRED MAN WAS EXCITED TO GET OUT IN HIS YARD AND RAKE.    HE TOLD ME THAT HE WAS “GIVIN’ IT” LIKE HE ALWAYS DOES AFTER A LONG WINTER…     BRISK, RAPID, RAKING. HE WAS MAKING SOME PROGRESS, AND THEN HE NOTICED HE WAS STARTING TO HAVE SOME UNUSUAL PAIN IN HIS LEFT ARM AND CHEST.    SO HE SAT DOWN TO TAKE A REST…   NEXT, HE BEGAN TO SWEAT. NOBODY ELSE WAS HOME, SO HE DIDN’T WANT TO TAKE ANY CHANCES OR BET..   SO HE CALLED HIS NEIGHBOR, TOLD HIM WHAT HE WAS FEELING AND WHAT WAS WRONG… THEN DIALED 911…   WHILE HE WAITED HE DID A SMART THING… HE DIDN’T LAY DOWN.  WHEN THE AMBULANCE ARRIVED, THEY HOOKED HIM UP TO A HEART MONITOR WHILE HE SAT IN HIS HOUSE… AND THEY LOOKED AT THE MONITOR AND SAID.. WELL IT DOESN’T LOOK BAD ARE YOU SURE YOU’D LIKE US TO TAKE YOU IN…?   SEEING THAT HE WAS ALONE…AND HE HAD CHEST PAIN, LEFT ARM PAIN AND WAS PROFUSELY SWEATING HE SAID “WE SHOULD GO”    WHICH THEY DID AND WHEN THEY GOT HIM IN THE TRUCK, THAT’S WHERE HE RAN OUT OF LUCK..