November 17th 2017 Today I was at Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital for my 6 month follow up. I had an ECG, an Echocardiogram, and then I went to see Dr Todd. My ECG today shows that my ventricles are starting to struggle more and can't get as much oxygen around. A CT scan that I had done while I was admitted in August shows that I have enlarged lymph nodes in my chest. I've done a bit of googling and there are a few things that can cause enlarged lymph nodes in the chest including sarcoidosis and an infection. The doctors had a discussion and they think I should have them biopsied to check they're nothing scary. They're pretty confident that they're only swollen because of my heart but they have to tell the transplant team about it in case they want to investigate. I had my DNA tested a while ago (it takes about 4 months to come back) so today I saw the genetics lady at Liverpool, Dr Mckay. She said they've found a faulty gene in me, so my mum and dad ne...
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