On the evening of March 21, I missed a step on the stairs and injured my right ankle so severely that it made a loud cracking sound. By the next day, my foot was so swollen that I could not even put weight on it. On March 23, after an orthopedic examination, I was diagnosed with a fracture of the inner bone of my right ankle and a rupture of the outer ligament, requiring about three months of treatment. ...
"I had to take blood thinners most of my entire life, but I am healthy without it"
I was diagnosed with an acquired heart valve disease when I was a tenth grader in 1988. Then, I had surgery to implant two artificial valves ...