MY MOTHER’S BROKEN HEART.
MY MOTHER’S BROKEN HEART. Kids, I took special note of the article about broken-heart syndrome because of something that happened to my mother. My father died in 1981 after a long illness—congestive heart failure—in which he was taken care of by mother. A short time after he died my mother had to go to the hospital with what was diagnosed as cardiomyopathy. The cause was mysterious. We were told that the cause might be a virus. She recovered quickly, as apparently patients with stress-induced cardiomyopathy do. It makes sense to me that she was suffering from broken-heart syndrome.