SADS Spotlight: Ruby
Can you tell me a little bit about your family’s SADS journey – from diagnosis to where you are today? Our journey starts with my husband’s daughter, who was having cardiac symptoms. The doctors didn’t know what was going on, so they did genetic testing, and found out...
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Stephanie and one of her daughters (who also has LQTS) Back in 1992, I was diagnosed with a condition called Long QT Heart Syndrome. Doctors discovered it through medication interactions, which caused a cardiac arrest. Doctors didn’t know as much about the condition...
read moreJoelle’s Heart Transplant Journey
When Joelle was 12, she passed out in church – and testing revealed that the culprit was ARVC. And it progressed quickly – a year after diagnosis, at 13, Joelle got an ICD to help regulate the “electrical chaos” in her heart. Joelle had been a competitive figure...
read moreVolunteer Week Spotlight: Suzy Berndt
I was lucky – I was diagnosed at birth. The doctors knew something was off with my heart rhythm when I was in utero, but the technology back then wasn’t advanced enough to know more than that. I was in distress when I was born, and I was born with heart block along...
read moreVolunteer Week Spotlight: Carl Barnes
How did you get involved with the SADS Foundation? I was at the University of Colorado in late 1999, finishing my residency in internal medicine. In my third year, I was a genetics and cell biology major. I designed a rotation where I could go out to genetic clinics –...
read moreSADS Spotlight: Samantha
When I was 14, I starting blacking out and have seizure-like activity, and we saw different specialists, but they couldn’t figure out what was causing the seizures. They did a bunch of different tests – MRIs and CAT scans – which all came back normal. Because of my...
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