Debbie describes the possibility that chemo caused her heart failure.
Transcript
And a doctor came in with a nurse practitioner, and they were trying to explain that you know, that I had heart failure. They don’t know how it happened. They said because I had breast cancer, I was also doing chemotherapy, so they said you know it’s either hereditary, like in the family or it was the drugs from the chemo. Even though it was 20 years ago. Or it was – or like 16 years ago I think at the time, or it was a virus.
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