Robert Osborne - Heart Failure Patient Story

Aug 26, 2023

Robert Osborne was diagnosed with heart failure in 2016. His cardiology team helped him defy the odds to overcome a tricky diagnosis.

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0.39 -> >> According to my wife, they said I wasn't going to make it through the night.

3.12 -> They said, "You better have the family come in," and whatnot.

14.24 -> My name is Robert Osborne, I'm 54 years old, on December 9th of last year, I was diagnosed

18.56 -> with congestive heart failure.

26.8 -> >> He had not been feeling well for about a month.

29.269 -> He looked worse.

30.539 -> His legs were all swollen again and they had been turning blue-ish black and that was working

36.69 -> its way up his legs.

38.109 -> >> I went to the hospital December 9th and that's why I brought my wife along with me

42.84 -> today, because after that I don't remember anything for seven weeks.

46.06 -> >> At one point, almost everything that could go wrong was starting to go wrong.

50.77 -> The cardiologist that was on that afternoon said to me, "I can't really treat everything

57.269 -> here.

58.269 -> He needs to go to Rochester General."

60.16 -> Dr. Feitell came to see us in the waiting room and, you know, he said to me, "Give me

65.22 -> some time.

66.22 -> I can turn this around."

68.63 -> I just trusted him ever since.

70.45 -> He was right.

71.75 -> He wasn't just talking.

73.11 -> He did what he said he was going to do.

76.41 -> That's what we were holding on to.

78.92 -> >> I always said to myself I would never quit smoking cigarettes.

81.549 -> I never thought I'd quit drinking, I quit drinking. I've done everything for the positive.

86.439 -> I go to the gym now.

87.45 -> If I can, on good days, I walk 2.5 miles a day on the treadmill.

92.149 -> Still, to be able to go from lying in a bed and not knowing anything up to walking 2.5

97.21 -> miles a day just a year ago, I find that's quite the accomplishment.

103.49 -> I credit Dr. Feitell for that.

106.399 -> I owe him my life.

107.88 -> The most I can do is thank him from the bottom of my heart.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BZ95RuWogQ