Heartburn

     My name is Dr. Jessica and I recently had a very nervous patient who ran quickly into my office with the most unusual heart condition I had ever seen in all my years of being a doctor.
     This heart condition is called “heartburn”.  If you get this condition the right ventricle and left ventricle, then right atrium, and the left atrium, and finally the arteries and veins slowly and painfully crumble into red ash.
    When someone suddenly eats a lot of spicy food you can get this horrible heart condition.  Most people have to eat ten ounces or more to get “heartburn”.
     A dry burning sensation is a symptom of this heart condition.  Another symptom of this heart condition is a rash as red as an apple on top of your heart.  The rash looks like a scar or fire mark.  Hence, the name of this terrible condition.  If you touch the scar it will get even redder and the body part that touched it will become red.
    There is only one treatment that is known.  That treatment is to go to a recommended heart surgeon and have a transplant to get a new heart.  You should go to a recommended heart surgeon because it is a dangerous procedure to perform.
    Today that patient is home having a regular happy life.
 

 By:
 Jessica G.

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