“If nothing happens to me, I throw away the watch”
Kim tells in an interview with CBS how her Apple Watch woke her up with a atrial fibrillation: His heart was beating strangely and faster than normal. When the warning was repeated several times, Kim decided to go to the emergency room. “If nothing happens to me, I throw the watch away,” she said.
He didn’t drop the watch by a long shot. After some analysis, the staff of the Massachusetts hospital discovered that a tumor was growing in Kim’s heart, and the rate of growth was such that it was limiting the flow of blood. An operation managed to remove the tumor that, otherwise, would have ended up causing myocardial infarctions and finally death.
Kim herself says the Apple Watch “It truly saved his life”, and feels “lucky” to be able to tell the story to CBS interviewers. Kim will continue to wear her Apple Watch while she recovers from the operation, sporting the Minnie Mouse watch face as she always has since she bought it for him.
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