| Shay always had a reoccurring feeling that she had fluid around here heart, and was always |
| short of breath, she was in and out of the emergency room many time with no one ever |
| catching the real cause. Her usual treatment at these facilities was to give her something to |
| calm her down, get her on oxygen and send her home with a nebulizer or pain medication. |
| There were even times that she was kept overnight, but the real problem was missed. |
| The one valve in Shay's heart on the right side called the _____________ doesn't open or |
| close all the way, this allows blood to not move forward completely, this was the cause of |
| the fluid is Shay's abdoman during her laperindectomy (See Her Road to Diagnosis) as well |
| as well as her shortness of breath, the fluid would also collect in her lungs causing the short- |
| ness of breath. The other valve on the right side is fibrouse from the Radiation Treatment, |
| and doesn't open and close in a positive manner. |
| The constriction Shay has always felt around her heart is the Paricarditis, the "fluid around |
| my heart again" statement she used to make, this condition causes the paracardium which |
| is the lining around your heart to thicken from a variety of causes, in Shay's case it is called |
| Constrictive Paricarditis caused by radiation treatment for Hodgkin's as a child. |