Ep 1 - The one with the diagnosis

HCMHypertensionGeneticDisorder

Tue Nov 03 2020

Sasipreetham

Well, getting right into the story, it all started in a pretty dramatic way. It was 3am on the 3rd of Nov 2020. I was unable to sleep that night because I was kind of excited tomorrow. I took an oath, I wanted to be feel better by doing the usuals, you know, hitting the gym, eating healthy and stuff 😊. Little did I know that my life was really about to change but for the worse.


Somehow amidst all the excitement and adrenaline rush, I slept around 5am, probably only to wake up with a sharp stinging chest pain. I did not know what was happening to me but the pain was unbearable. I couldn't move, couldn't eat. Even breathing in was painful. I couldn't take it anymore and I kind of got a feeling that it wasn't just some muscle spasm, but something has really gone wrong in my body. So, I went to the emergency ward and the doctors were super quick in taking an x-ray, blood samples [ Twice. for my thin body ]. They said everything seems to be fine [ The nurse was pretty hot By the way ðŸĪŠ] but they too didn't understand what was going wrong. After a couple of hours of lying in the bed, a cardiologist examined me with a 2D echo ultrasonic test. He saw something was odd but couldn't see it clearly.

After examining me for about 20 min or so, the first thing he says to me is "Do not panic, there seems to be a hole in your heart. 🙂". Obviously, I went crazy hearing that. I was like "WAIT! A WHAT NOW!". He wanted me to come in again tomorrow to have a thorough checkup again to confirm that. I went home pretty much convinced that my whole life was depending on that hole. So, that's how it all began. The downfall, the end of the happy days in my life. Probably 🙂.
ÂĐ2022 MJ