May 28,2025, Today is the day Vanderbilt University Medical Center. They added me to their family officially. I am so happy and grateful for power, love, being of sound mind, serenity, grace, mercy, knowledge, everything, everyone, happiness, laughter, safety, my safe haven, health, strength, and favor. 

Now I will me traveling back and forward to Tennessee once a month. I have a meeting tomorrow with them to learn more about what is going to be the next step. I also have an appointment tomorrow May 29, 2025, with my Electrophysiologist regarding my pacemaker and defibrillator here in Piedmont Fayette, in Georgia. I pray that I get adjusted correctly.  So, this is where I am for now. I will keep you posted. 

I am so happy and grateful for all things. When I received the call today, I knew before she told me. I am so elated. So, this makes me work even harder to raise $10,000 to help me and her family manage this overwhelming financial burden. Every single donation—large or small—brings us closer to giving me the gift of life.

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Be here for her family and loved ones who need her have started this GoFundMe page because I am in need of a heart. I am requesting for Pre/Post Transplant donation assistance. My challenges are that I have to go to various hospitals for my treatments and testing's. This can be financially challenging. I have had heart issues since April 2016; in February 2019 I was giving the pacemaker and defibrillator. In December 2021 I receive a heart ablation. February 2023 I was told I would need an LVAD, then was told in September 2023 after being admitted into the hospital my heart was too weak for the LVAD, and that I would need a full transplant. In October 2023 received a new generator for the pacemaker/defibrillator. In April 2024 received another heart ablation. April, May and June 2024 received three heart cardiac catheterization, which is unusual but all three hospitals I was being evaluated at wanted their own studies. Going from Houston Tx, to Charlotte NC, back to Georgia, now in Nashville, TN.

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Today is good day, I am so happy and grateful for, power, love, being of sound mind, grace, mercy, knowledge, consistency, abundance, Happiness, laughter, and joy.

Today May 12, 2025, I travel to Vanderbilt University Hospital in Nashville Tennessee, I will be there for 4 days. Tomorrow starts early at 6:45am arrival time for my first appointment with testing. For additional testing on my condition. I have to have another Heart Catheterization. which I'm not to fond of, it's a simple procedure but this goes through my main artery in my neck. : Cardiac catheterization (kath-uh-tur-ih-ZAY-shun) is a test or treatment for certain heart or blood vessel problems, such as clogged arteries or irregular heartbeats. It uses a thin, hollow tube called a catheter. The tube is guided through a blood vessel to the heart. Cardiac catheterization gives important details about the heart muscle, heart valves and blood vessels in the heart.

During the procedure, a doctor can test the pressures in the heart or do treatments such opening a narrowed artery. Sometimes a piece of heart tissue is removed for examination.

Usually, you are awake during cardiac catheterization but given medicines to help you relax. The risk of major complications is generally low.

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Why it's done

Cardiac catheterization is a common method to diagnose or treat a variety of heart problems. For example, your doctor may suggest cardiac catheterization if you have:

Irregular heartbeats, called arrhythmias.

Chest pain, called angina.

Heart valve problems.

Other heart problems.

You might need cardiac catheterization if you have, or your doctor thinks you have:

Coronary artery disease.

Congenital heart disease.

Heart failure.

Heart valve disease.

Damage to the walls and inner lining of tiny blood vessels in the heart, called small vessel disease or coronary microvascular disease.

During cardiac catheterization, a doctor can:

Look for narrowed or blocked blood vessels that could cause chest pain.

Measure pressure and oxygen levels in different parts of the heart.

See how well the heart pumps blood.

Take a sample of tissue from your heart for examination under a microscope.

Check the blood vessels for blood clots.

Cardiac catherization may be done at the same time as other heart procedures or heart surgery.

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