Personal Narrative: My Day With Cardiomyopathy

Sometimes I ask myself how I overcame my disease. Many people with lupus experience fatigue, memory loss, loss of appetite. Usually younger African, white, and Asian men and woman develop that disease in their teens. It all started that night when I was laying in my mom bed. At that time I felt like it was my time to leave this earth. When I turn 15 years old I saw so many changes. . I experience so many symptoms while I was in my second semester. All the symptoms that I experience were hallucinations, fever, nausea, and nose bleeds. At that time I seen myself getting really sick. I caught strep throat and it was hard to focus in school because I missed so many days.

He was born with a condition called Thoracic Aortic Aneurism (TAA). The aorta is the largest artery in the human body and this condition is fairly rare. The biggest threat posed by an aortic aneurysm is rupture- which is what happened to my dad. Over the next six months, my dad needed lots of support from my mom and it was incredibly hard for her to balance my and brother and I during that time. I started to see the struggles she was going through and decided it was time for me to become a strong member of the family that everyone could rely on. While my mom spent long days and nights at the hospital, I especially had to be there for my brother. I would help him off the bus, work on school work with him, go to his practices, and made sure he always had something to eat. This process really educated me into becoming mature. It not only showed me how it was like to be an adult but also what it was like to be a grown women, mom, and an important figure in somebody’s life. Through the difficult move, my dad’s health scare, and being there for my brother, my eyes were opened to life’s true importance to a strong family unit and how miniscule my childhood problems really ever

I have faced many adversities in my life; the most significant one being the passing of my dad. My dad battled with Multiple Myeloma since 2012, and unfortunately lost that battle on March 22nd, 2015. He was being treated for his cancer in Mexico, so when he became seriously ill I had to travel to see him. I visited him during winter break of my junior year and stayed a few days after my break was over. When I came back, I was behind in Chemistry. I went in on a daily basis to receive extra help from my teacher. All my hard work payed off as I earned an A in Chemistry my entire junior

We were living at my uncle’s house in California. I shared a bedroom with 3 other kids including my brother. I didn’t mind sharing a room because it was always better than my house in Mexico where I didn’t even have a bedroom! My father at the time was working for Construction Company and my mother stayed at the house. My parents had been saving every penny they could so that we were able to buy a house for ourselves. My father has always been a hardworking man. I just love how he is a very optimistic and motivational person. Every time he came home he would always be in such a positive and energetic mood no matter what the circumstances were. Life was good at the moment, until I had started my first year of school

Why? Well, I personally have a heart condition. I was born with left Valve Stenosis witch means my heart has to work harder to pump blood though the valve and my body can suffer with less oxogen. With having this condition I do have chest pains, more then anyone has. The wild part is I can not take birth control because there is a lot of effects within the heart. I’ve had an inhaler many times to help with my breathing and multiple open heart surgeries. With my condition there are many things in this world I am not able to do, such as I have to be a certain weight. As for me I can’t weaigh over 120 pounds, I can’t go on roller costers, I can’t have too much salt, and I’m very limited on working out and I can’t skip meals and being stress is not great for my heart.

Your childhood is something that is totally unforgettable. Whether it was good or bad, everyone can remember memories of it. Maybe knowing that you can help a child's childhood might make you want to listen to these heartwarming stories from the Make-A-Wish website.

Through all of the challenging things that took place while my father was fighting cancer, I learned many valuable lessons. My parents decided that my father would undergo chemotherapy and radiation at the Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Newnan, Georgia. Normally, they would be gone for about two weeks at a time, but there were a couple occasions that my parents were forced to stay there for months due to major surgeries. Home alone in Florida, my brother and I had very different schedules. So, I was alone most of the time. I was only a sophomore in high school, and I found myself having to do pretty much everything on my own. Even though it was onerous, this time in my life is very meaningful to me. It taught me that I will not always have someone to rely on. Even if it was a little earlier than normal, I am thankful that I was forced to become as independent as I am today. I value this chapter in my life, because I believe that being strong and independent is very critical to being able to survive in the world we live in

In the winter of 2013, I lost my father to a rare disease called Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH). This disease is a life threatening immunodeficiency in which the body makes too many activated immune cells. He suffered bed rest for months on end in the hospital where I, nor any other of his seven children, were able to see him until his last day. I was only in eighth grade and was just starting to learn what it was like being a teenager in high school. Surviving the rest of the year was mentally exhausting and undoubtedly was the most challenging time of my life. It wasn’t until ninth grade when I truly realized I wasn’t the only one affected by the loss of my father. My widowed mother was torn in two and would never be whole

Other forms of secondary restrictive cardiomyopathy include scleroderma, Friedreich’s Ataxia, hemochromatosis, glycogen storage disease and sarcoidosis. Chemotherapy and radiation therapy used to treat cancer can also cause restrictive cardiomyopathy. Sarcoidosis is caused by the infiltration of granulomas in the heart and other tissues of the body. Lungs and lymph nodes are the main organs targeted by this disease, but no organ is spared as it also affects the central nervous system and skin. In the USA, the occurrence in the white population is estimated to be 11 per 100,000. It affects people between the ages of 20 to 30 years and occurs more in women than in men (Dubrey, Bell, Mittal, 2007). Hemochromatosis is caused by the buildup of iron in the heart tissue which can then lead to heart arrhythmias. Scleroderma is a disorder of the connective tissue that leads to fibrosis of the skin, heart and lungs. Glycogen storage disease, also named Pompe’s affects infants. It causes increased storage of glycogen and fat tissue in the body. This causes the heart then to become very heavy and thick. Infants tend to struggle to breath, have trouble feeding and fail to meet developmental steps on time like rolling over and sitting up.

Well first of all i been playing on mcl since before it merged with arkham that was about 2 years i been playing on mcl.

One of the most challenging obstacles I have ever encountered and I had to overcome was losing the girl I love pass away from a severe heart disease. She has been the girl I loved since the first day of Kindergarten elementary. The very first day, we have greeted and went along pretty well.

In the last two years, I almost lost my dad and almost flunked out of college. Having been taking care of him and watching him slowly decline to heart disease and other obesity related diseases, I finally checked him into the hospital. Going in for open heart surgery at age 72 and 428 pounds with type two diabetes, his chances of survival were slim. I will never forget his words to me before he went in for the surgery. "Don't worry about me, you haven't graduated from college, so I can't die yet". Even though he barely survived his surgery, the post complications are even more troublesome than before. With my dad receiving professional help, I am free to pursue my long desired education. I got myself out of academic dismissal and finally

Riding home in the back seat of that old ford after a big loss for my little league baseball team. The feeling of if it was all my fault that we lost. If I would’ve done one thing different would things be the same? A single tear rolls down my crisp face as we were in for the long ride home that felt like an eternity. My mom tells me that, “everything is okay that it was just a game.” Clearly, she doesn’t understand how the mind of a 10 year old works. My dad resorted to the best medicine he knows—laughter.

Diabetic cardiomyopathy, a specific form of cardiomyopathy, is caused by insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and associated hyperglycemia independently of other risk factors such as coronary heart disease (CAD) and hypertension. Diabetic cardiomyopathy was first described in 1972 in four patients who showed heart failure symptoms [1]. The term “diabetic cardiomyopathy” was confirmed in a Framingham Heart Study in 1974 that demonstrated risk of heart failure was 2.4-fold in diabetic men and 5-fold higher in diabetic women comparing to non-diabetic patients after adjustment other risk factors including age, hypertension, obesity, dyslipidaemia, as well as CAD [2]. After ruling out CAD by angiography, a study from 17 adult-onset familial diabetes mellitus in 1977 provided the more definitive evidence of diabetic cardiomyopathy that showed increased cardiac left ventricular (LV) end-diastolic pressure, decreased LV compliance, and low LV ejection fraction with diffuse hypokinesis, suggestion that the characters in diabetic cardiomyopathy are cardiac hypertrophy and interstitial fibrosis and associated reduced LV compliance and diastolic dysfunction [3]. Clinically, the cardiac dysfunction in diabetic cardiomyopathy progresses from the normal heart to subclinical cardiac abnormalities such as LV hypertrophy and diastolic systolic dysfunction, to severe diastolic heart failure with normal ejection fraction and eventually systolic dysfunction accompanied by heart failure with reduced ejection

Short Answer Questions 1. What organs do cardiologist specialise in? Cardiologist 2. What is the word for period of 100 years? Century 3.