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Review of Boston Medical Center

A close relative was feeling very sick with lack o...

A close relative was feeling very sick with lack of air and other symptoms and she was rushed to the emergency room. After the doctor made a few tests, she was told she had 3 days to live, her heart arteries were blocked, just like my late husband did. She was told of the risk of the Catheter surgery and the possibility that she could die while in surgery because of her current health situation and her age. She opted to do the surgery as she was sick and in so much pain, she felt that she was dying.

After 2:00 PM surgery started and by after 6:00 PM she was done and she called me with so much joy and energy in her voice that it felt like she gained 50 years extra of lifetime. A few days after the surgery she also said that she was feeling rejuvenated, light, and happy. She didn't feel suffocated or lack of air as before.

The Staff and Doctors were the best of the best and so attentive to her medical needs, I was so happy to see her getting the right care with the right hospital. Boston is known for having the best hospitals in the world and this hospital surely proved that.

While my late Husband had similar symptoms that obviously showed that something was wrong with his health for about 5 years, he kept denying and lying to me about feeling good, it got me thinking how easy it would had been if he had gone to the doctor and take care of his health. I remember when he was in the ICU and the doctors told me that there were many more men in the ICU with the same health issue. I just kept thinking "Oh waoh ! how many families and wives deal with men who do not like to go to the doctor and get check ups".

I have to make this public in a way to create awareness. It is so easy to seek medical help, there is no excuse not to go to a doctor. Even if one had no medical insurance, there is still the choice of, for example, flying to the Dominican Republic and get low cost and best of the best medical care as well.

Some of the symptoms before a stroke or a heart attack as I had seen:

* Lack of air, weird strange heart palpitations.
* Blurred speech.
* Poor blood circulation.
* Lump in the legs (calf muscle lump, thigh muscle lump) this type of lump
is temporary and will disappear, is a real sign.

All in all, I am very happy of the medical care from this Hospital. It does feel like a real life miracle.