Feb26
Blog Talkers: Heart
Heart. What is close to your heart? Does heart disease run in your family? Would you say your heart is in good shape? Would you ever consider donating your heart after passing away? Why or why not?
My family — my husband, my children, my grandchildren are all close to my heart. Yes, heart disease does run in my family. I would venture to say my heart is not in good shape. Several years ago, it was detected that my heart was beating out of rhythm. After a week of trying different medicines to get it back into rhythm, they sent me home from the hospital, with a prescription of Coumadin and Toprol, and its something I live with every day. Some days are better than others. I take the Coumadin to keep clots from forming. Because it is out of rhythm, the blood doesn’t pump through my heart at a steady pace like it should, and this tends to let blood pool in one of the chambers. Coumadin keeps my blood thin enough to keep clots from forming in that pooled blood.
A side note: after various tests, it was determined that severe sleep apnea caused it go out of rhythm. And we probably let it go long enough (we just thought I just had an annoying snoring problem…), that my heart will probably never go back in rhythm.
So, in light of this, donating my heart is probably not an option. I have made (and I made it before any of this happened) the decision to be an organ donor … if I have anything healthy enough that can be used to make someone else’s life better, then that is the path I want to take. My soul will go to heaven, and that is all that matters.
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