Back in January of this year I was in the hospital with congestive heart failure. I have been on a regime of drugs since February. And as of today I am probably 99% recovered from something that they tell us you do not recover from. Ejection fraction is the percent of blood in your heart that is pumped out on every beat. In February my EF was 15%. Today it is 45%. The cardiologist today told me that 45% is in the good range for someone my age. I still take a lot of medicine. But between the meds and the prayers I am feeling great! Everything that the cardiologists did helped me to recover.
Congestive heart failure runs in the men in my family on both sides. I was born with a genetic flaw that made me a candidate for this. But I have survived and I didn't need a pace maker or a defibrillator after all. My situation was somewhat dire in February but my future looks brighter every day. I do not see my primary cardiologist for 12 months and my other cardiologist for 9 months and the third one I never see again.
The only condition that I currently have is low heart rate which is caused by meds, not genetics. If low heart rate continues I am to call the cardiologist and tell them so that I can wean off of the medicine causing the problem.
I do not always understand why the doctors do what they do. But I trust them and I pray for my doctors and nurses that God would help them help me.
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