I didn’t. Not for decades. I walked around believing my heart was the one part of me that was still “fine.” I trusted that silence meant safety. I trusted that no news meant good news. But here’s the truth I learned the hard way. Sometimes the heart is the last one to speak up and by the time it does, the damage has already been building for years. For me, the story didn’t start with a cardiologist. It started almost forty years earlier, in my lungs. I was diagnosed with idio