Sharon2 wasn't sure what her diagnosis meant for years.

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He said ‘Don’t worry it’s not a heart attack. It’s heart failure’. I didn’t know what heart failure was. And he didn’t really explain it. The lack of information in hindsight was notable. Lack of explanation for the next couple of years, that we were there. I would see every 6 months, my cardiologist. Have a lovely conversation, tell a few jokes, share a few jokes and at the end he’d say, ‘Let me listen to your heart. You’re doing fine.’ When you hear those words, ‘you’re doing fine’ – it has a way of softening the diagnosis, a way of kind of putting you in denial I think.

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