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AN AID TO RECOVERY
Writing Magazine more than proved its worth over the Jubilee weekend when I suffered a heart attack. I was in the Cardiac Assessment Unit waiting for an angiogram, but that would not happen until Monday at the earliest. For the first night of my stay, I was bored out of my mind listening to the constant beeping of the monitoring machines. I could not sleep or move because a dozen wires were fastened to my chest. I envied the other patients with books and tablets because they had something to do.
Luckily, the next morning, a relative brought in my July edition of , which proved a saviour. Not only did it occupy my time with useful information, like how to use Amazon’s A+ content to improve sales, it provided new markets for stories that I wanted