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My Twin Brothers Heart Surgery

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Hello, recently my identical twin brother David experienced an aortic dissection. The walls of his heart valve thinned, expanded and burst. I was told this is almost always fatal. The actor John Ritter died of the same thing. I am happy to say that he beat the odds, for now. David spent over twelve hours in surgery with a team of the best surgeons in Massachusetts. He looked like he was starting a great recovery being sent home after only five days in the hospital. I thought it was a miracle. We had to rush him back to the hospital the next day. He started experiencing seizures. The doctors placed stents in some of his arteries to increase the blood flow to his heart. Two days later we took him home again only to rush him back to the hospital a third time for blood clots.
David has a family of four younger children and his job's health insurance is only covering a small fraction of all of the myriad medicals bills that have started to arrive, with many more still to come. He will be out of work and unable to work for an extended period of time while he continues to fight to beat the odds and survive this terrible ordeal.
If anyone out there knows anything about identical twins, you know how hard this is, not only for the brother that is suffering, but also for the one left untouched. I constantly ask myself why I am not in that hospital bed, and when will I be. All our lives anything that happened to one happened to the other. I feel powerless to help him. I would indeed trade places with him if I could. The only thing that I can do is offer this plea and ask for assistance form any out there that feel it in their hearts to help.

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Dean Damico
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Reisterstown, MD

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