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Advice for Women Experiencing Heart Failure – Lois

 

Lois talks about having her sister with her at appointments.

Transcript

I think you got to ask a lot of questions and you got to take advice the best way you can, but I think that we don’t ask a lot – enough questions and I have – I have – one of the – and that’s one of the reasons why I take my sister with me. At the beginning that’s why I did it for a number of reasons and she was able to understand more than I did.


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