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Last month I forced my husband to go to the doctor because his legs were swelling and he was having a hard time breathing. We found out he had congestive heart failure at the age of 34. It is part genetic, part undiagnosed diabetes, and a virus back in January that caused everything to accelerate.

We are in the waiting stages right now but we have been told that he will eventually need a heart transplant. We will know for sure in about 6 weeks or so when they do another EKG and send him to Vanderbilt hospital. He has completely forged new habits now and is doing an amazing job of following the doctor's orders.

That being said, if he does have to have a transplant what advice do you have for us?

We went to our first cardiology appointment last Monday. The doctor was ecstatic about how well he was doing. He had bad edema and venous pooling and now that is completely gone! He has also dropped about 35lb (a lot was fluid but not all of it). I'm really proud of him. I'm sure he is going to be happy to know he is going down the right path. It's really scary for me but being able to talk to people who have gone through it have really helped us.