On September 9, 2019 we were told that my husband would need an LVAD Pump for his heart. This was “The Beginning.” Our lives were about to change and we didn’t even know it. We struggled through other medical issues in the past just prior to the LVAD news, but this would be the most difficult battle we were about to face.
The battle started with news of an LVAD, Left Ventricular Assist Device. As the doctors flooded in and continued to explain what was wrong with Joe’s heart, the more we were lost in all the medical mumbo jumbo. How could this be happening, what happened to a simple stomach surgery for a damaged duodenum that he had in May? How did this happen? How could he have advanced heart failure? We were shocked, scared and angry. Why was asked, yelled and cried often from that September 9th day. As we started to accept this fate we were handed, then the news of he may not qualify for the LVAD, he may be too sick to get it, he may be too sick for a heart transplant which he needs. Who decides that? Why do the doctors get to say who gets one and who doesn’t?
Unconditional Love 
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