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Medications – Barbara

 

Barbara feels her medications are excellent.

Transcript

Most of the medication that I’m on for heart failure is diuretics and that just keeping the heart – the heart a little bit dryer. Its just keeping the water away from the heart, so used properly, they’re excellent medications. You just have to be really, really careful with them.


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