You can wait around for somebody to invent the perfect indestructible cyborg heart, or you can take care of the one you have now. Choose sanity. Choose the HealthPro HP-786 Wrist Blood Pressure Monitor.

Lying on the gurney, Donald thought he could feel his heart cold and high in his throat. He watched the flourescent lights go by on the ceiling of the hospital corridor, one every few seconds in single file. Orderly. Uncomplicated. Everything that Donald’s emotions were not. First the heart attack a few months ago, now yet another bypass? Can’t a guy catch a break?

The thought rose immediately, as always. You had your break already, it taunted. You turned it away. You scoffed. You were too good for it. Remember? It had been four years, but Donald would never forget. His niece-in-law or somebody gave him a HealthPro HP-786 Wrist Blood Pressure Monitor, he mouthed the appropriate platitudes, and that was that. It wound up in a closet, under a bag of old undershirts he’d been meaning to take to Goodwill and behind a beaten-up Sorry board game missing most of the pieces. He never got to know its fast, comfortable, accurate readings of systolic and disatolic blood pressure. He paid little heed to its 60-reading memory with date, time, and average data. He never had any use for the Proper Position Indicator. Donald just went on working his job as an air-traffic controller, eating four cheeseburgers a day, living life as always.

All the while, the time bomb was ticking. And Donald never knew…until the explosion.

Through the rapidly gathering sedation haze, Donald felt a stab of anger. What kind of fool have I been? he demanded of himself. Why am I such an idiot? Why didn’t I use that HealthPro HP-786 Wrist Blood Pressure Monitor?

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