Once Barbara realized the full impact of HF, it was the sorriest day of her life.
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That’s when I saw the cardiologist after one of my visits to the hospital and he said, ‘It’s not quite as bad as what they said it was in the hospital. You know it’s not right-sided; it’s not left-sided. It’s just a malaise of the heart, if you will. It’s just not pumping as much as it should or it’s not working as hard as it should’, but definitely I would have to quit working. That was the sorriest day of my life. I cried like a baby and I was pretty sure that I would have no value after that.
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