Lynda's husband and son experienced significant fears about her health.
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My son, he had a really tough time because they only gave me a four percent chance to get off the table for the, the emergency triple bypass and each day it went up. The next day it went up to five percent. So, my son watched me and he, he was, like he’s never experienced anything like that. But he’s lucky because my daughter-in-law works where I work and we have amazing benefit packages so we’re lucky that way. So, my son was able to go to counselling to work himself through some of that. You know he was very scared of losing me. And my husband he was, he used, he didn’t use anything during heart failure but he did use the transplant psychologist. It was offered to him.
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