My Apple Watch saved my life.!!

[Konickmickson]

Please bear with me as I am new to Reddit but thought it may be the best place to say thanks to Apple.

Dear Apple.

I thought I would take the time to write to you about my recent events and to let you know that I am thankful for your efforts in developing technology as it has saved my life.

I am a 30 year old male living in the UK, living a healthy lifestyle and although knew of some issues with my history of my health thought I was at the time the healthiest I have ever been.

Back in April while nearing the end of training for the Brighton marathon and feeling like I was doing pretty well. When on the 5th of April I was getting palpitations all of a sudden which didn't seem to stop. While wearing my Apple Watch series 4 which had just had the ECG function just released a week before i thought I would use it just to see what was happen when it flagged up with an atrial fibrillation warning it made me more concerned with what was happening.

With a series of events which ended up with me in accident and emergency that evening to being told that I shouldn't do the marathon which was only 10 days away just on a precaution to now 2 and a half months later after a series of tests being told I need to have a valve repair surgery via open heart surgery sooner rather than later which is currently booked for Wednesday 3rd of July.

I would like to take this time to thank the Doctors and Nurses who have got me to this position where after a recovery period will be able to live a healthy long life.

But I do know that without my series 4 watch just giving me a little kick to get to A&E I may not be here today as I would have done everything to run that marathon which most likely would have killed me let alone ignoring the symptoms to the point of heart failure (blokes I know).

So thank you again for all your hard work.

Many thanks,

[evanbhai]

hello guys,

Wearable computers, such as Apple Watch are definitely causing a revolution in healthcare. There will be more and more sensors and the ability to monitor 24/7 is a huge paradigm shift. Thermal cameras with AI checks can also play an important role in preventive medicine, giving us a level of insight never available before.



thanks and regards

[Nasenbart]

hello guys,
Wearable computers, such as Apple Watch are definitely causing a revolution in healthcare. There will be more and more sensors and the ability to monitor 24/7 is a huge paradigm shift. Thermal cameras with AI checks can also play an important role in preventive medicine, giving us a level of insight never available before.
thanks and regards

Du hast gesagt und uns unnötig nichts neues erzählt. Erinnert mir die Zeit vor dem Mauerfall. Koreaner machen es auf eigener Art und so lange es nichts zum Fallen gibt ... . Wo sind wir stehen geblieben? Ach, ja. Und solcher Dienst gerade für Apple? Und bitte, keine lebensechte Zombies auch. Gar nichts. Apple hat es nicht nötig.

[GordonnotRamsay]

Ich bin definitiv älter als du. Möglicherweise muss ich eines davon kaufen. Vielen Dank, dass Sie es mit uns geteilt haben, und ich hoffe, dass Sie gesund geblieben sind.

[Shing_Tsui]

Das ist schön! Es hat Ihnen definitiv das Leben gerettet. Wie wow! Technologie ist wirklich etwas auf dem Gebiet der Medizin. Ich denke, dass medizinische Spezialisten Apfeluhren in Zukunft als medizinisches Werkzeug anerkennen werden.