I can't believe I didn't know this

Hi Reader, I just went to my first cardiologist appointment. I am 55 years old. And I am almost embarrassed to type that. My father went to a cardiologist. My grandmother went to a cardiologist. Somehow it never once crossed my mind that I was supposed to too. Nobody ever said the words to me. Not one doctor in thirty-five years of annual appointments. And it turns out I was about twenty years late. Here is what nobody tells women and what I think every single one of us deserves to know:...