Naomi stresses the importance of online support and meeting other heart failure patients.
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I would say connect with someone, reach out to your doctor and see like – ‘can you provide some sort of mentorship something. Connect me with someone’. But like Heartlife, other Facebook groups all of those are very important. Like I made two super good friends that I would talk to all the time through Heartlife – Like we talk all the time and I’m super thankful for these friendships and I would never have met them if not for Heartlife.
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