Joanne questions what caused her heart failure and is still unclear about 'why.'
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What, how and when did this happen? So, I’m not even 100% sure when it happened but I know that, about when, because of the symptoms and when I finally dealt with the symptoms – that’s why I always say it happened to me about 3 years ago. It could be a bit more. Again, not knowing the symptoms and what it was, it could have been even longer than that. But ya – that question like why? What happened from being fine, to all of a sudden having this heart failure? And there’s no explanation. Nobody can really give you an explanation. They just assume that it must be a virus that weakens the heart, is what I get because there is no other indication of anything else being wrong.
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