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Slightly angled picture of a smiling woman with glasses on her head and text overlay Smiling through heart failure
Smiling Through Heart Failure
Rachana Vijan is a 66 year old breast cancer and heart failure survivor who chose to smile through it all. Here she shares her journey starting from early symptoms to the shocking diagnosis of heart failure and learning to proactively manage the…
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Staying Strong through Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension and Lung Transplant
Karthika Ramachandran narrates her story of pain of living with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH), and the strength and resilience that helped her manage the whole process of PAH treatment and lung transplant recovery. What started as a habit of…
Picture of a young woman with the text overlay: living with an invisible illness | Pulmonary Hypertension
Living With A Rare Form Of Pulmonary Hypertension
Runjhun Hajarnis, 34, suffers from PVOD, a largely invisible illness which is a variant of Pulmonary Hypertension, which, in turn, prevents her from living life as normally as she would want to. As she says: "No one knows just by looking at you…
A woman with a rare heart disease ATTR-CM in a red dress with her husband in a white dress
My Wife Has A Rare Heart Disease
Mrs. Khairunnisha Usmanhaji Patel is a 58 year old woman with a rare heart disease ATTR-CM. Her husband Usman Patel speaks about the her early symptoms, the years it took to get a diagnosis, how her condition affects her quality of life and how she…
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Learning To Live and Love With A Chronic Illness
Vibha Gupta, 49 originally from Delhi and now in Chicago, USA, lives with multiple chronic illnesses like Sjogren's and heart failure. She shares her journey of learning about her illness, the lifestyle changes that help her cope and why she thinks…