Living a Full Life with Congestive Heart Failure
Living a Full Life with Congestive Heart Failure
Following hospitalization at The Miriam Hospital and months of hard work at the Center for Cardiac Fitness, Kevin DeJesus was ready to move forward with his new, healthier lifestyle. Kevin was quickly reminded that sometimes things don’t go as planned. http://www.cviri.org
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6.37 -> You get a complete program.
7.37 -> He really was proactive and made a lot of
great changes here.
14.809 -> The end of my cardiac rehab dovetailed with
the emergence of another cardiac problem,
21.05 -> which was was very very difficult, frightening,
and frustrating.
24.69 -> I was in the hospital for 3 days and we were
still trying to figure out what was going
28.56 -> on.
29.06 -> It was congestive heart failure, again, but
we weren't sure what was causing it and Dr.
35.13 -> Crane and my other cardiologist at the hospital
wanted me to walk around and see, sort of,
40.75 -> whether I could exert myself again.
42.289 -> And if that I was still having the breathing
problems, Dr. Gordon and his assistants catheterized
48.449 -> me, found the blockage, and then immediately
ordered me to have a stent, which they did
53.14 -> right after the cauterization was complete.
55.62 -> They opened the artery and my blood started
flowing again to that area.
59.18 -> There was fortunately no damage to the heart,
so that those cells could be renewed and I
65.32 -> was breathing and out of the hospital in one
day.
67.909 -> The technology and the expertise of these
doctors allows them to swiftly respond to
74.59 -> something that is, you know, very dangerous
and very life-threatening if it's not taken
79.65 -> care of and it is the expertise and the collaboration
between doctors that allows them to treat
87.9 -> these situations with such accuracy and such
efficacy that we're able to recover and get
94.73 -> well in a very quick amount of time.
97.1 -> Which reduces the questions of disability,
which isn't just a financial one, which is
101.44 -> vital, but it is also one about your life
and your future.
105.77 -> I had just turned 41.
106.95 -> I had just completed my doctorate degree when
I was first diagnosed with all this.
110.91 -> It was a devastating set of circumstances
and I've never left Dr. Crane's office without
117.04 -> feeling hope.
118.35 -> So I'm moving forward and that hope that Dr.
Crane spoke of has been the anchor for me
124.52 -> to have the strength and the resiliency to
not give up and to endure and to keep reminding
130.149 -> myself that the key to living well and thriving
with a serious cardiac issue is something
136.9 -> I have great control over and a great part
in making happen.
140.879 -> And I couldn't have realized that without
the Cardiovascular Institute.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILSu6DCZh2I