Heart Failure Patient Seeks Alternative to Open Heart Surgery
Heart Failure Patient Seeks Alternative to Open Heart Surgery
Imagine being told your heart was only functioning at 20 percent from a blockage, but that you didn’t need to have open-heart surgery to fix it. That’s exactly what happened to Rochelle Lee two years ago when she saw her doctor to find out why she was having trouble breathing. Learn more at: https://www.ochsner.org/cardio
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0 -> I know I had congestive heart failure
6.629 -> and every night I was scared to go to
10.139 -> sleep I assumed that I would need
14.9 -> open-heart surgery the time recovering
19.109 -> the pain especially I'm scared of pain I
25.519 -> work in the municipal and traffic court
28.529 -> so we're responsible for bringing up the
31.8 -> inmates and sometimes they're hard to
34.17 -> deal with you know they resist and we
38.34 -> had an Emmy and she was acting up and we
41.879 -> had to restrain her and I felt like I
44.61 -> was dying you know I felt like oh my
47.46 -> heart coming out of my chest
48.989 -> I said something is not right so I went
52.32 -> to the doctor and that's when I was told
54.93 -> my heart was only functioning 20% and
57.66 -> that I had blockage
65.17 -> I have six granddaughters and five grand
69.79 -> songs and three of them the oldest tree
72.85 -> limbs with me and they keep me young
75.25 -> and with my family I can't be sick it's
79.45 -> like oh I'm sick nobody nothing is done
82.36 -> and then I was scared that I I would
85.66 -> have to go disability I couldn't work
89.01 -> [Music]
100.56 -> we suspected there be significant
103.149 -> improvement in her symptoms by opening
104.68 -> this completely blocked artery and there
106.99 -> are two ways to do that one way is with
108.64 -> open heart or bypass surgery and the
111.399 -> other way is with stents and she's an
113.439 -> active person as a sheriff's deputy and
115.18 -> raising three grandchildren so the
117.399 -> decision was made that stents would be a
119.14 -> better treatment for her but what made
121.21 -> her different than the average patient
122.74 -> who gets a stent is that her right
124.84 -> coronary artery was completely blocked
126.429 -> not just severely narrowed and
128.019 -> oftentimes the cholesterol plaque that's
130.899 -> blocking the order is more rigid than
132.459 -> the walls of their artery which makes
134.53 -> opening these arteries technically more
136.72 -> challenging
138.22 -> [Music]
148.29 -> think I got the call two weeks before
151.45 -> Christmas and dr. Patel said that did
155.2 -> not mean open-heart surgery it was
157.15 -> another procedure all of this was a
160.09 -> great relief and that was the best
162.63 -> Christmas present I ever got I felt like
173.35 -> I had a new heart within two weeks I was
176.26 -> back at work I got back in the swing of
181 -> things right away it gave me time to be
184.9 -> with my grandkids life is short so I do
194.65 -> what I want to do
195.93 -> [Music]
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ8-F9oAvRc