crazyaky

I supposedly developed congestive heart failure from a virus (at least that is what they theorized). I had pneumonia three times during a period of about 1.5 months which finally resulted in a 2 week stay in the hospital over Christmas '09, possibly because of fluid buildup in the lungs from the congestive heart failure. I guess I was lucky because I'm doing a lot better now. The local hospital wasn't doing a good job with the medicine cocktail and had me overdosed basically. I finally went to Vanderbilt and they got me on the right medicines and whatnot.

Anyway, these types of problems always get my interest now and I was reading an article about a man who had his heart replaced with essentially a pump that runs continuously. He obviously had no heartbeat, but seemed to be more or less ok. The article was talking about this as some new technology and how it was a success. I don't know any more details about it, but you might look into that. I'd take a username of Bionic_Man or Cyborg_Heart over thatduyingguy any day of the week.