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To help me recover from heart failure

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My name is Spencer Alderwood. I am a self employed very prestiged home renovator and love my work. I recently was admitted to the Ottawa heart institute for impending heart failure without immediate treatment. I have a beautiful young family who are the center of my entire world. Being away from them these 5 days has been EXCRUCIATING. Over the last month I've been having some heart health issues. Lots of what I thought were just palpitations convincing myself it was just stress and I'd be fine but, it turned out I was heading towards meeting my maker. Every 4th beat, I was having a premature ventricular contraction (ectopic heartbeat) causing my heart rate to stay consistently high. I'm currently in the heart institute and will be here for as long as it takes for the cardiologists to feel it's safe for me to go home. My heart function (volume exiting the heart) is at half of what it is supposed to be and because of this my heart rate is always high trying to compensate causing even more damage. The ventrical side or my heart is severely enlarged and systolic function is severely reduced. Normal blood pumped out of the heart is 55% of the contents and mine is down at 24%. They don't know yet if infection has caused this or if it's been a long time in the works from another previous infection. I am being administered heart meds and observed over the days to make sure I am adjusting accordingly. Seeing as what I do requires lots of physical movement and elevated heart rate I have no idea how I will provide my part for my family with no employment insurance (as I'm self employed). What I am thankful for is that I'm alive in the best place I can be so at least I feel safe but this is a definate blow to my planned future.

Please, help me through this hard time so I can strengthen my heart with the correct meds and get back into my work boots!
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    Greely, ON

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