Healthy heart

A little over 2 years ago, after a couple of years feeling like crap, my little brother was diagnosed with congestive heart failure.
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heart failure 
–noun
1.
a condition in which the heart fatally ceases to function.
2.
Also called congestive heart failure. a condition in which the heart fails to pump adequate amounts of blood to the tissues, resulting in accumulation of blood returning to the heart from the veins, and often accompanied by distension of the ventricles, edema, and shortness of breath.
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It was scary. He was in the hospital several times and had many doctors. Nothing was really helping. Some of it was his own stubbornness about making some vital lifestyle changes. I think that's more of a man thing. I know it's hard to accept that you're not perfect, but I believe it's harder for a man because of his ego.
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Anyway...then he got married. And because of his love of life with his new bride, and her love for him, he finally decided to take things more seriously. He also started seeing a new group of physicians. This was a God send for him. They actually listened to him and were interested in making his life better. Through many months and countless tests, different cocktails of meds and pints of blood they decided to 'jump start' his heart. (like in the movies) They believed that doing this could shock his heart back into a normal rhythm and it wouldn't have to work so hard and would become stronger. His heart was only functioning at 30%. Again, it was scary.
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Yesterday he had his 6 month check-up with his very cool cardiologist and she had FANTASTIC news for him...his heart is in perfect rhythm and now functioning at 60%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! His BP was 118/69 and his pulse was 72. She's even going to take him off of 4 of his meds!!!!
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WE ARE SOOOOOO STINKIN' HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! To all of you who were inclined at one time or another to bless my brother with your prayers, THANK YOU!
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I almost cried tears of unadulterated joy! Life IS good :-) And even though he's acted so cavalier about the whole thing, I could hear a lot of happiness in his voice when he was telling me.
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HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY