“I’ve been through my fair share of health issues, but I’m now able to do the things I want to do — and that’s incredible,” Jason Pablo tells Yahoo Lifestyle.
Jason Pablo regularly went for five-mile runs, so he was surprised to discover that he was physically struggling while playing golf one day in August 2000.
The cardiologist looked at a chest X-ray Pablo’s doctor had given him, analyzed his blood work and gave him a diagnosis: He had cardiomyopathy, a disease of the heart muscle that makes it harder for your heart to pump blood to the rest of your body. “The doctor said, ‘There’s a two in three chance that you’re probably going to die from this,’” Pablo says. “I was shocked. I looked at my wife, who had come to the appointment, and her belly.
During one procedure called a catheter ablation, where a doctor uses a laser through a catheter to create scar tissue to try to fix an irregular heartbeat, Pablo’s doctor accidentally tore a hole in his heart and he ended up needing open-heart surgery while he was still under for the ablation. “I woke up in the intensive care unit and had wires and tubes coming out of me,” Pablo says. He went in for his original procedure on a Tuesday and woke up on a Thursday.
“I prepared my mind that I would be sitting in a hospital room for God knows how long, but I only waited six days for a heart to become available,” he says. Pablo received a heart transplant on September 5, 2008, at Stanford Medical Center, and says the recovery was relatively fast. “I was out of ICU within three days and then, eight days later, I was home,” he says.
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