This story happened not with my family, but they often remember it as an example of men’s inattention to their health. My parents were friends with a family (I will call them Dolans) near 10 years ago. They will be the main characters of this story, where a local catastrophe and person’s attitude could lead to a severe harm to health. Fifty-five-year-old Peter Dolan was the only man in the family – he lived with wife and two adult daughters. The family had a garden plot 30 minutes away from home. The garden community had general pipe for watering with scheduled water delivering.
This system became a reason of a catastrophe. The section of general pipe on Dolan’s plot broke one weekend exactly during the watering. Peter needed to fix the problem quickly to save own land and to give neighbors their part of water. The man made temporary patch and drove home to make a replacement. He cut steel pipe with the aid of his younger daughter and went back to the plot in a rush. The leak was repaired, but it was a huge stress for the whole family. Mr. Dolan felt really tired when they returned home. His condition did not improve even after a dinner, shower and couple hours of rest. Finally, Mrs. Dolan decided to call an ambulance; in spite the fact Mr. Dolan was against this idea. Doctors diagnosed a heart attack and mentioned it was not the first case. After that Mr. Dolan remembered he had a similar condition, when he visited his mother in the village couple months ago. However, he did not visit a doctor or tell the family about it. This event can be treated as the beginning of the story. While it is separated from main events by couple of months, the first case created a basis for them.
The head of Dolans family Peter Dolan is the main character of this story. Fifty-five-year-old man got a heart attack when he fixed pipe on his garden plot. His wife insisted on calling an ambulance, and doctors found out this episode was not the first. Mr. Dolan successfully recovered, but his condition could be worse, if he would follow his standard attitude. People should care about their health and timely check reasons of changes in it.
