Hard to trust my body
As a young child, I was already aware that my mother was different from other mothers. My mother was often tired, did not play tag or football, and when we went shopping, she was often looking...
Knowing is stressful, but so is not knowing too.
My father died of heart failure 14 years ago. He had heart problems for years, but he was never very open about what he had. His mother had died of sudden cardiac death when he was only 4 years...
Something wrong in the family…
When I was 18, my father received the diagnosis HCM. The whole family received a letter from the hospital, but nobody wanted to have their heart checked, except me.I had a vector cardiogram,...
That’s not who you are…
When I was 13, we discovered by chance that I was born with a heart defect called Hypertrophic...