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Choosing life with a VAD (ventricular assist device)

Rain splattered, blurring my view of the Massachusetts state highway. The rental car’s wipers squeaked as they dragged across the windshield. Though I was briefly tempted to turn back, I kept driving. The man with the battery-operated heart had invited me to his home, and I didn’t want to be late.

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 Choosing life with a VAD (ventricular assist device)

As I drove, I wondered what Van would tell me about what it had been like to learn that he wouldn’t get a new heart. Maybe he regretted the decision he had made to get the VAD, knowing now that he would never again be able to shower the way he liked, or to go fishing lest the machinery get wet. I wondered if he would be angry, resentful of his current reality.

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In this blog, I wanted to show followers of this blog some of the latest treatment options available for sufferers of Congestive Heart Failure (CHF or otherwise known as HF).

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