Blog 1

The health issue I am concerned about is heart disease. I am concerned about heart disease because my father died from Congestive Cardiac Failure when I was a teenager. When he died I had very little information about heart disease. Now that I am older and I have read about different diseases I understand much of what he was going through. For instance his legs, ankle and feet were swollen most of the time. I too, was diagnosed with pre-hypertension two years ago. I always try to eat healthy and whenever I can I exercise. My doctor advised me to buy a blood pressure machine so that I can check my readings at home and record them. Clearly, heart disease is genetic in my family. My grandmother on my mother’s side also had heart disease and she died after a stroke. I interviewed two women at my workplace. The first woman I interviewed was an African American in her late fifties and the second woman I interviewed was Caucasian in her thirties. The African American woman said she is concerned about diabetes because she was diagnosed with the disease about five years ago and it runs in her family. The other woman I interviewed said she was concerned about cerebral palsy because her daughter suffers from the disease. We are all concerned about different diseases. Diabetes and heart disease are chronic and can be controlled while cerebral palsy is a non-life threatening permanent brain disease. However, we have something in common. We want to live a positive, healthy live and hopefully overcome our concerns about the diseases that affect our daily lives.