@A MyHeartDiseaseTeam Member,
Thank you, I'm trying hard but we do have our bad days. Because as heart patients we don't always look sick our families and friends see us as healed but it is far from the truth. I can appear normal then suddenly turn very pail that is the nature of SVTs and mine are severe as it causes SCD (Sudden Cardiac Death). I used to think I was thinking I had suddenly become extremely clumsy a busted knee hitting the city sidewalk to a concussion falling at home. I was put in a halter monitor and they found out I wasn't clumsy but was dropping dead. My cardiologist said he did know how I was restarting my heart. I had an A-ICD implanted February 2, 2018, it won't let me die and if I go down it will trigger an alarm at the hospital and activate a GPS tracker.

You may need to keep reminding family and friends that you have a heart condition because we will look fine but our hearts are struggling. But when you aren't feeling well stop and sit. You have to look out for you now.
Robin

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You do look good. We never know what others are dealing with. I feel pretty good most days but my husband seems to think since my surgery, I am good to go. Every thing is like I never had a problem. Some days I feel exhausted but try to push through. You are a beautiful woman and I thank you for your response. I hope things go well for you. May God bless you and help you get through this. Your grandma was a very smart lady.

Hi TerryeaGT,
I hate to be Blount up the sooner you come to the realization that there is no cure for heart disease not even full heart transplant is a cure. I have transplant people in my cardiac maintenance class. The sooner you fully understand the full impact of your heart the easier your adjustment. I suffered an AMI/ STEMI widowmaker with massive irreversible progressive damage. It left me with stage D CHF to mention a number of other cardiac conditions. I have one stent in my main coronary artery just out side of my aorta. I have a rare form of CAD in which my arteries go into spasms and collapse. That was in 2010, I'm a listed transplant candidate. I began having severe SVTs and go into SCD, an A-ICD was implanted in 2018. I was told that it they got a heart stronger then mine they would attach it to my A-ICD. Today is my 13th anniversary and I believe in life. I take 12 pills on a good and as many as 18 on a bad day. To see me no one would think I was a critical care cardiac patient. I did all of this standing 5'4" and weighing 108 lbs. Life my dear is what you make it, I've never looked at myself as being sick but having a condition. I am still 5'4" and weigh 106. You look at yourself and not your conditions.
Robin

PS. Sent a photo, not bad for 68 my number one rule is live your life with what you've been given. My grandma would say if life gives you lemons make lemonade.

Are we ever considered cured?