The Impact of Congenital Heart Defects
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- Опубліковано 21 січ 2020
- Congenital heart defects impact so many: infants and children, adult survivors, parents, and practitioners. Nearly 40,000 babies are born with a CHD every year in the U.S., and it is estimated that 3 million Americans are living with CHDs.
In the past two decades, The Children’s Heart Foundation has funded more than $13 million of CHD research and scientific collaborations that have improved longevity and quality of life for individuals living with CHDs in dramatic and life-changing ways. Only with your help we can we advance our critical mission: to save, extend, and improve the lives of all congenital heart defect patients by funding the most promising research to advance the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of CHDs. Learn more at www.childrensheartfoundation.org.
This video debuted at The Children's Heart Foundation's Red Tie Ball on December 7, 2019.
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I was born with a congenital heart defects i am now 40 and have been living with heart failure. Over the years iv had 3 open heart surgeries for my aorta valve. The last sugary was to replace the valve in 2016 I have two bad values. I can feel my self going down every thing I do takes alot out of me. Everything I go to the er they say everything is normal. I can feel my heart straining..the way my rhythm changes from day to day I feel its not much longer. I'm always weak and its not fun but I still keep going no matter what. Because I am young I have to fight for SSI I don't look sick and people don't understand or really see the reality of heart failure in young people. Its a struggle 😪
I pray everyday
When I was a baby I had meningitis. It was then that they discovered a hole in my heart affecting all four chambers. Back in the seventies, they had to wait to do surgery because I wasn't big enough. At the age of two and a half, they couldn't wait any longer. I had a second surgery in 1990 at the age of seventeen. I get the comments, but that was years ago? What do you mean you're tired, you need to keep going. Why were your children both high-risk pregnancies? However, thanks to the wonderful doctors at Texas Children's in Dallas I have lived a pretty good life and am nearly fifty. I'm blessed beyond measure.
I have TOF/APV. I have had two open heart surgeries. I suffered a brain injury during my open heart surgery in 2013. I still have really stiff muscles in my legs that causes trouble with walking.
I have conginital heart deases