My experience with heart disease is a long one. I had Rheumatic fever when I was in second grade. At that time they gave me penicillin and bed rest in a hospital. The damage done to my heart by rheumatic fever involved the mitral valve. In 1956 the best they told me I could hope for was to live to about age thirty, never have children, and ... Read more
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