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When she got too tired and short of breath from doing her regular housework, JoAnn knew something wasn’t right, so she called her doctor.  

Vera recalls how she felt different and breathed easier, the moment her heart valve was replaced.

After losing her mother to a heart attack, Jacqueline knew to follow her gut and get a second opinion, which led to reparing her leaky heart valve sooner, before it was too late.

Pat, who is going on 107 years old, says she was surprised that her difficulty breathing was caused by a heart problem, not her lungs.

Joel explains how rheumatic fever in his teens caused him to have an extra heartbeat, which eventually led to heart valve repair decades later.