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Arrhythmias
- By redhead4u777 · Posted October 8, 2009
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- In my mind I was planning out my day, mindlessly performing my pre-work morning rituals. Make my lunch-check. Iron my shirt-check. Wake up on the kitchen floor. What? Did I just faint again? On the way ...
Our 13 year old girl passed away from a cardiac event
- By tdhssp · Posted January 1, 2009
- 2 recommendations
- Our little girl passed away in December 2006 from a cardiac event at the age of 13 years. Samantha had a rare chromosome disorder and a bicuspid aortic valve, however, no other similarly diagnosed persons ...
Obituary...
- By Axykatt · Posted December 11, 2008
- 2 recommendations
- Words cannot create for you a proper effigy Describe your manner, the way you loved, or your personality. Your intellect was vast but your manner never vain Though times were sometimes tough never once ...
Why'd I survive?
- By NWWriter · Posted March 11, 2008
- 2 recommendations
- As I'm approaching my second 21st birthday (SCA 7/16/87) I'm quietly pondering how this 21st differs from my first 21st. It's an especially poignant time, too, right now, because the picture I've got ...
ICD, LQT, low potassium
- By edmar · Posted November 3, 2009
- 1 recommendation
- I'm a SCA survivor, and i'm lucky to be alive again. I fainted, April 23, 2009, the reason i was rushed to the hospital. I was admitted for 12 days, and after a series of tests and investigation, my doctor ...
I'm an RN that got hurt and my health went to pot!
- By RobynRae · Posted October 7, 2009
- 1 recommendation
- This is my first time on this site to recored any info and I hope I do it right! I'm still in the learning stages of the computers and what I can and can't do which is keep my fingers on the right keys ...
love the fall weather
- By nanamo · Posted September 29, 2009
- 1 recommendation
- but hate how my body aches every year today its 50 crisp cool morning here in ga mountains and yeah i hurt my chest bothers me buts its a ache from being sawed and pulled apart...anyone else hurt in the ...
ummm...my chest is beeping....
- By mery · Posted August 29, 2009
- 1 recommendation
- Ok, so I get up this morning and I'm sitting in the bathroom, just sitting, yawning and what not, ya know the regular morning bathroom stuff....and I'm hearing this beeping. So I look all around like ...
Here Comes my ICD
- By adad5757 · Posted August 13, 2009
- 1 recommendation
- Greetings to one and all again, I am just amazed at the amount of wonderful people here on the site and the profound and loving support that everyone is quick to give and share with each other. So many ...
Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder..it has a name??
- By eviefor3 · Posted June 29, 2009
- 1 recommendation
- finally........a name for what so many of us go through every day. now i have a LEGITIMATE excuse for what i do lol A. A. A. D. D.: Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder. This is how it manifests ...
Thank goodness I found this site.
- By Laura802 · Posted February 22, 2009
- 1 recommendation
- I just found this web site tonight, 3 weeks exactly from my true love's SCA. I didn't even know that term until now. I'm thankful to be able to hear from others who went through similar situations. Dan ...
Losing our 16 year old son
- By skydog · Posted February 18, 2009
- 1 recommendation
- I'm not sure if I'm in the right discussion group but I have been searching the internet trying to find one and I hope nobody minds that I place this entry. We lost our 16 year old son this past September ...
Anoxic brain injury; what's normal?
- By Axykatt · Posted November 7, 2008
- 1 recommendation
- After a SCA my 25 y/o husband is now being hospitalized with ABI. The doctors and hospital staff are very reluctant to tell us what is a sign of recovery, and what is simply reflexes or unconscious movement ...
Survivor's Guilt
- By Cheryl03 · Posted March 12, 2008
- 1 recommendation
- I have been dealing with survivor's guilt for almost 5 years now. The cardiac arrest I suffered over 5 years ago, wasn't related to the guilt i've had been feeling. It was related to the heart transplant ...
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