Kim credits a hospital resource platform for helping her manage her heart failure.
Transcript
They have really good resources there for people. When I heard about CHF (Congestive Heart Failure) and I had to do a different diet and blah blah blah I was like I have no idea about any of this. So, I started watching the videos that were there and they were really really like I’m not going to say they were dumbed down because that not really what it was, like really simple things you can do. Right now, like things you can do right now to help your condition. Like go for a walk around the block. And this is how you read a nutrition label. And this is how to ask your pharmacist to have your medications and all the blister packs. How they you know things like that, little life hacks.
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