A young cowboy from Montgomery County has to put his roping on hold for a while.
"It's not even really like a hobby. It's more like a lifestyle," says Cody. "Everything is roping and has been all of my life."His days of roping and rodeos are on hold while he heals from a shocking diagnosis of cardiac arrest.
Cody had just married his high school sweetheart. After their honeymoon at Palo Duro Canyon, he was feeling on top of the world. The day after they got home, a dramatic and drastic shift in his health came out of nowhere. Dr. Long Cao, a cardiologist with Memorial Hermann, talks about some of the signs of a possible heart attack and what you should do."The MRI shows that there's some weakness in the heart muscle, the ejection fractions that we look at, and it was subtly reduced," explains Dr. Marwan Jumean, a cardiology specialist with UTHealth Houston & Memorial Hermann. "That was probably the culprit of what caused the heart to stop."They turned to Cody's DNA for answers.
Doctors surgically placed an Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator or ICD in Cody's chest, a small battery-powered device to not only detect but stop irregular heartbeats known as arrhythmias.
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