Courtney

and so they they did like this scope and where uh they put me to sleep and then um they uh put this camera down my uh my throat and so they could like fully like have a closer look at my heart and because they did an ultrasound but then like they said it was fine but then they're like we need to like actually look at it very like closer like

not just a no, just telling me to look at it closer.

And so after that procedure happened where they looked closely at my heart with this little camera down my throat, that's when they found out that I had two holes in my heart that I had never known about.

never know about and they were saying yes she has two holes in her heart one which is a pfo what's they call it it's called a pfo which essentially everyone has it either closes or it doesn't when they take their first breath of life when they're born it either closes or it doesn't and it you can have like a full life and with no complications if it doesn't close

it was just the problem um was that the other big hole in my heart it was an esd that was the problem that and they were like right next to each other too and that's when they're like yeah this is probably where she had the stroke because blood clot was traveling through her body and then went through the both those holes and then went straight up through your brain okay

And so like, this is probably the cause of the stroke.

And if we wouldn't have found these holes, she would have been in heart failure and dropped dead by the time she was like 35, 30.

So like,

It's crazy.

Yeah.

Like, I know this is, like, a weird thing to say, but, like, they were just saying that... It was like a blessing in disguise.

Yeah, a blessing in disguise.

Yeah.

And so we were like, oh, awesome.

Like, we're not awesome that she has these holes, but, like, thankfully we found, like, the reason why she had this joke.

And thankfully we were able to, you know...

fix the problem so did you have to get surgery on your heart i did so like after a month after i got out of the hospital i got i had a half heart surgery and they closed both holes or just one both they closed it because they were able to put the the device because there's a device in my heart now but they were able to close both of them

and they were able to close both of them at the same time with closing.

How was that surgery?

It was, like, I remember, like, them putting me to sleep, but, like, I remember not fully being asleep.