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    Heart Disease Approximately 610,000 American dies from heart disease each year (CDC, 2015). It is the leading cause of death in men and women; as well as for people of most ethnic/racial groups in the United States (CDC, 2015). African American are twice as likely to die early from heart disease, and men have the highest risk of early death with heart disease (CDC, 2015). The term heart disease refers to numerous cardiovascular diseases. Cardiovascular diseases are diseases of the heart and…

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    Beep. Beep. Beep. I open my eyes. Beep. Beep. Beep. Legs stiff, head pounding, weak as can be. I look over and ask my mother, “Did everything go ok?” She responds quietly, “Yes sweetie, now get some rest.” As I lay there, I can feel the I.V. in my arm. I look at the bag and watch the little droplets fall into the tube. One. Two. Three. I count each drop hoping time would fly by like the speed of light. I wondered to myself, how many 15 year olds have to go through a surgery such as this? Surgery…

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    Echocardiogram Essay

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    distance running became my favorites. As a result, I quit other sports and focused on these two grueling activities. I've spent hours in the pool and on the track, pushing my body to its limits. While I have always been fairly successful in these endeavors and enjoyed my achievements, the discovery of my heart murmur was devastating. All of the women on both sides of my family have an autoimmune thyroid disease called Hashimoto’s. This genetic predisposition…

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    you find out your grandmother has cancer? Are you supposed to cry, what about scream, or even laugh? No, not me I just sat there is shock not knowing what to say. My grandmother had already been through so much, she had diabetes, congestive heart failure, and now cancer. She now has to have surgery to remove the cancer, and since her heart was so bad she was not a very good candidate for surgery. The day finally comes when we have to sit in that horrendous hospital and wait for hours upon hours…

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    I grew up in Cleveland Ohio. My mother is a single mother. I have never met my father. I have a sister who never met her father too but also doesn’t even know who her father is. My mother was never close to her family. She always kept my sister and I away from our own family. My sister has a disability and her life was always changing. My mom is bi polar and she never took her medicine. My sister and I went there so much with my mom there were so many days that I thought I wouldn’t make it there…

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    My patient was a 54 year old, physically active, self employed tree trimmer, who had a massive heart attack. After a stay in ICU he is stabilized and is going home for 1 week with a “lifevest” defibrillator, while he awaits his surgery for stent placement and permanent defibrillator surgery. He has a very complex situation. He is young and just had a massive heart attack. He is a smoker and now has to quit. He was physically active and has a loss of ability to perform normal activities due to…

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    Becoming A Heart Surgeon

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    When I grow up I want to become a heart surgeon. There are many things I need to do to make that happen . One of the biggest things is to go to school. After going to college, I’ll have to attend 4 more schools. To become a heart surgeon I will start as a general surgeon and move my way up eventually getting paid well. I would like to become a general surgeon before I become a heart surgeon. I would have to study many years of general surgery. I have to do study five years of general…

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    In E. E. Cummings's poem " I Carry Your Heart With Me", he reveals that when one falls in love, that love is never-ending and will remain in one's heart. In this poem, the poet writes about how love follows the poet everywhere, and the poet carries the love for another wherever he goes. By saying, " I am never without it (anywhere I go you go, my dear;" ( Cummings 2-3) it is understood that the poet carries a significant other's love with him wherever he goes. Obviously this is not physical,…

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    break when I got a call from home. My 54 year-old father had been taken to the hospital because he had suffered a heart attack. After my father’s recovery, I realized that my father was just another number. Heart disease is a very serious problem in the United States as it is the leading cause of death for Americans (Class Lecture, 9/14/2015). Diving deeper, it is ultimately upstream factors like socioeconomic status and level of education that lead to heart disease and poor health in…

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    The following quote really reminds me of my eighth grade year. “blood is running, heart is pumping, as the battle gets closer.” Why you ask? during the summer before my eighth grade year, I went to Iowa for four days with the high school wrestling team for a wrestling camp. At the end of the camp on the way back in the van, the head coach, Josh Frie asked me if I wanted to wrestle for the high school. I said yes. When the wrestling season came, I got my but kicked by a bunch of high schoolers…

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