Jennifer describes her experience having a stroke and finding out afterward that she had heart failure.
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I had no symptoms beforehand. I was experiencing a slight headache through the weekend. And I called my doctor for an appointment because I thought it was odd that the headache had lasted more than a couple of days. My appointment was, unfortunately, the day after my stroke happened. And they, you know, got me to the hospital started treating me for my stroke. And at the time, because they were trying to figure out why they were also doing a lot of testing on my heart. And I had zero symptoms of any heart issues. But they discovered that I had cardiomyopathy, and my ejection fraction was low.
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