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Love Your Heart!

Every year hundreds of babies are diagnosed with cardiac anomlies and defects for unknown reasons with very little knowledge surrounding the illnesses. As a mother of a nine month old baby boy that has one of the most complex anomlies present in infants, Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, I have set out to make the public aware of what can be done to help other families. I am not the only person that has a child or family member with a cardiac defect, but I hope to make a difference by educating the public. You only get one heart unless you are extremely fortunate, so it's best to take care of the one you have.

The heart is an amazing muscle in our body. It has four chambers and is connected to the entire body through a system of arteries and veins. Each chamber has a specific part to play. The chamber in the top left is called the left atrium and its function is to recieve oxygen rich blood and empty into the left ventricle. The left ventricle sits right below the left atrium and its function is to pump the oxygen rich blood out into the rest of the body. The oxygen poor blood then comes back to the heart, after circulating the entire body, through way of the right atrium. As the blood moves through the tricuspid valve, the air in which we breath has the oxygen that binds with the blood, and travels to the right ventricle and then to the left ventricle and the process begins again!