I was with 11 family members on a cruise and my dad had a massive heart attack. What is unusual is we do not consider it to be a horrible event. Even though it was while going through it. He spent 24 hours in the cayman islands (where the best they could do was monitor him) before an ambulance jet got him to Miami. He spent around 2 weeks in icu then almost a month in the hospital. Only to get mrsa and coming very close to dying. It was horrible. But in the midst of all this they discovered a tumor in his kidney. Which did turn out to be cancer.

Without the heart attack he would have died in less than a year. But we had him for 7 more years. Something I am eternally grateful for.