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Throughout our family we have always had heart disease in our genes, on both my mom’s side and my dad’s. I was lucky enough not to get it, but my brother wasn’t. My brother, Dante was born with no heartbeat the doctors took him out right away and revived him. They did tests and found out he had wolff parkinson white and long q t syndrome. A heart disease that mostly starts happening when he does physical movements. His heart will start to be very fast, up to over 400 beats per minute which creates too much blood in the body and can cause you to do within 30 minutes if not treated. When Dante was younger he played hockey, the doctors didn’t like it but since he was so young and there wasn’t so much competition they said he could play. Our family was out to skate together at the Oval and Dante loves competition. He kept asking my older brother to race around the rink with him. They kept doing it and doing it until we had to leave. As Dante was taking off his skates my mom noticed he started to turn pale. She checked his pulse and noticed it was abnormally fast. We quickly left and headed to the hospital. This was very scary for me as a 7 year old because I had never seen my parents so scared before …show more content…
“I can’t let it stop me from living life, yes it is scary but I just try to forget.” He is always so happy and always looking at the best of things in life. He cares so much for everyone around him. He is a very outgoing kid and is very well liked. Not only does he have an amazing personality but he is very dedicated to his school work. “School has always come so easy to me, I have always liked going to school and seeing my friends.” Dante now goes to Cretin Derham High School as a freshman and is in senior classes. He is one out of the 3 freshman in them. “My goal for high school is to graduate with a 4.0, I think I can do it,” He says with a grin. He plans to play baseball for Cretin this
Throughout our family we have always had heart disease in our genes, on both my mom’s side and my dad’s. I was lucky enough not to get it, but my brother wasn’t. My brother, Dante was born with no heartbeat the doctors took him out right away and revived him. They did tests and found out he had wolff parkinson white and long q t syndrome. A heart disease that mostly starts happening when he does physical movements. His heart will start to be very fast, up to over 400 beats per minute which creates too much blood in the body and can cause you to do within 30 minutes if not treated. When Dante was younger he played hockey, the doctors didn’t like it but since he was so young and there wasn’t so much competition they said he could play. Our family was out to skate together at the Oval and Dante loves competition. He kept asking my older brother to race around the rink with him. They kept doing it and doing it until we had to leave. As Dante was taking off his skates my mom noticed he started to turn pale. She checked his pulse and noticed it was abnormally fast. We quickly left and headed to the hospital. This was very scary for me as a 7 year old because I had never seen my parents so scared before …show more content…
“I can’t let it stop me from living life, yes it is scary but I just try to forget.” He is always so happy and always looking at the best of things in life. He cares so much for everyone around him. He is a very outgoing kid and is very well liked. Not only does he have an amazing personality but he is very dedicated to his school work. “School has always come so easy to me, I have always liked going to school and seeing my friends.” Dante now goes to Cretin Derham High School as a freshman and is in senior classes. He is one out of the 3 freshman in them. “My goal for high school is to graduate with a 4.0, I think I can do it,” He says with a grin. He plans to play baseball for Cretin this