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Hi All----
I saw in another post that people were talking about a family with several cases of men in their 50's dying suddenly--they were mentioning the possibility of an autopsy----
My Dad died in his nineties last year 2 days after I was told I had HCM. I quickly realized that the only way for me to know if my Dad had it would be to get an autopsy, pronto---didn't know if this was warranted or not---didn't know anything much about anything.
I spoke with a cardiologist about it, who didn't think it was such a good idea. Subsequently, I discovered that this Dr. really didn't know anything about HCM. I also spoke with my Funeral Director about it, and we decided against it. I knew that would put an end to it, since I certainly wasn't going to concern myself with it after he was laid to rest.
After that, my mother and my brother were tested, and no evidence was found of HCM. I guess that my Dad didn't have it either, since he was a very strong man who lived to be almost 94, despite numerous minor heart attacks and geriatric diabetes.
It certainly was an uncomfortable conjunction of events for me---the diagnosis coming while my Dad was on his death-bed, and then the uncertainty about an autopsy.
Any thoughts?
Do people do autopsies to discover if HCM was present? It seems very different when a man dies in his 50's. My Dad died as his body broke down due to extreme old age, so I doubt very much if an autopsy would have meant anything------
I saw in another post that people were talking about a family with several cases of men in their 50's dying suddenly--they were mentioning the possibility of an autopsy----
My Dad died in his nineties last year 2 days after I was told I had HCM. I quickly realized that the only way for me to know if my Dad had it would be to get an autopsy, pronto---didn't know if this was warranted or not---didn't know anything much about anything.
I spoke with a cardiologist about it, who didn't think it was such a good idea. Subsequently, I discovered that this Dr. really didn't know anything about HCM. I also spoke with my Funeral Director about it, and we decided against it. I knew that would put an end to it, since I certainly wasn't going to concern myself with it after he was laid to rest.
After that, my mother and my brother were tested, and no evidence was found of HCM. I guess that my Dad didn't have it either, since he was a very strong man who lived to be almost 94, despite numerous minor heart attacks and geriatric diabetes.
It certainly was an uncomfortable conjunction of events for me---the diagnosis coming while my Dad was on his death-bed, and then the uncertainty about an autopsy.
Any thoughts?
Do people do autopsies to discover if HCM was present? It seems very different when a man dies in his 50's. My Dad died as his body broke down due to extreme old age, so I doubt very much if an autopsy would have meant anything------
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