Distraught woman, 62, literally suffered a broken heart after the death of her beloved Yorkshire terrier

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A healthy woman’s heart literally broke after the death of her beloved Yorkshire terrier.

Joanie Simpson, a 62-year-old mother from Texas, experienced chest pains after her nine-year-old dog, Meha, died in May 2016.

When she was airlifted to the hospital, doctors told her that the devastation she experienced following Meha’s death had nearly killed her. Simpson was diagnosed with potentially-fatal Takotsubo cardiomyopathy or ‘broken-heart syndrome’.

Her story, published today as a case study in the New England Journal of Medicine, exemplifies the physical damage that overwhelming sadness can do to one’s body in the wake of a loss.

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