I walk because I know that with every step, I’m making a difference in someone’s life. Including my own! Who would have known at 34 I would need a pacemaker? I had not been feeling well for a couple days and one night while working at the hospital I put on a telemetry monitor to see how my heart was beating. It showed that I was in a heart block, after my shift ended that morning I went to the emergency room to be checked out. I ended being sent home with a continous heart monitor that would send notifications to my primary care doctor if my heart did anything critical. That evening i received a call from my doctor telling me I was in a serious heart block and needed to be admitted to the hospital. While there my heart rate dropped to a critically low rate. I was started on some medication to try to stop it from happening, it did not work. My cardiologist decided it was necessary for me to have a pacemaker implanted, so in February of 2019 I got a tiny pacemaker implanted into my heart!
And when combined with a million other Heart Walk Heroes across the nation, we have an even greater impact toward curing heart disease and stroke. Will you be a Heart Walk Hero with me?
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Have a heart and help me reach my goal today!
