Susan2's heart failure took months to diagnose as a young woman.

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I was 28 years old and I got into what I thought and was told was pneumonia. So I went to my family doctor. She said ‘pneumonia – take some antibiotics and you should be good’. All right so 2 weeks later I wasn’t good and I came back to the family doctor and we did that all over again. Eventually after the second round of antibiotics we went back to the family doctor and that that point she said ‘OK I’m going to send you to the hospital and have someone else look at you’. OK so we went to the hospital and the first thing the doctor that saw me said that ‘we’re going to admit you – it’s not your lungs, it’s your heart’ and that like ‘what I’m 28?’ – and that was really heard to hear and understand. At that time women, young women, were not associated with heart failure. It just wasn’t one of those things that they were associated with. So that’s why the diagnosis of pneumonia went on as long as it did. I was mad at the beginning.

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