Congestive Heart Failure

[livingwith]

Its funny, you tell people that you’re twenty three with a defibrilator and the most common response is that they have an uncle or a grandpa who has one also. How do you do it?
How are you expected to go on and live your life as if it were normal. How am i supposed to pursue a life of a family. I would be cheating them out of a life with a husband and a father. I suppose wanting those things are completly normal and okay. But acting on them seems so selfish. I have my beleifs and I belie...Read the full article

[janby]

I am sorry to hear you have to live with a defibrulator, at the young age of 23. Have you talked to a cardiologist about the advisability of having children? Do you know for sure your condition won't get better? I'm praying for you that things improve.