That is, unfortunately, a common scenario, said Dr. But she said she believes her trip to the emergency room probably saved her life. “I thought he was being overly dramatic,” she said. Limited blood work and a chest X-ray ordered by multiple doctors came back normal, but one doctor was still worried and suggested Hale go to the emergency room immediately. Hale was quickly descending into heart failure, but she didn’t have a clue. Her father, a former customs agent with the Department of the Treasury who investigated drug and human trafficking, died of a heart attack at 50, but Hale figured that was a result of stress, drinking and smoking, and poor eating habits.Īn uncle died at 48 and a grandfather at 50, again, of heart attacks. The dots that Hale wasn’t connecting had to do with her family history. But before long, he was rolling her luggage to cabs because the smallest exertion left her winded. Hale asked Barber to keep her condition quiet. Jen lives out of a bag and runs herself ragged, so I understood that she blew it off as a workload issue, but I told her I was very concerned.” She leveled with me that she’d been seeing doctors who couldn’t find anything wrong. “So as a friend, I asked her what was going on. Rondé Barber, a sports analyst at Fox, noticed that his normally outgoing colleague was quieter and didn’t look right. I never woke up until housekeeping was banging on my door the next morning.” I was leaving to go to NBA meetings in New York and then a football game in Charlotte (North Carolina), and at a lunch break, I thought I’d go to my hotel room and take a short nap. “It persisted when I went back on the road, but now I also had terrible swelling in my ankles. “I had taken a week off after the hectic NFL season, was home in New Orleans resting and relaxing, but still felt a total lack of energy,” remembered Hale. As an athlete herself, who runs and cycles long distances, her frenetic work schedule had never been an issue. It began in 2016, when Hale began to feel extremely tired on the road. Suffering from heart failure but unwilling to give up the work she loves, the LSU alumna wore the hidden defibrillator on playing fields all across the country, buttoning it beneath her blouse so no one would know about her life-threatening condition. This was the answer for Jennifer Hale, a Fox Sports sideline reporter from New Orleans who covers NFL, NBA, and college games all over the United States. It is designed to shock you back to life, should your heart fail.
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In desperation, your cardiac physician prescribes a portable defibrillator, to be worn at all times beneath your clothing. But you decide to continue working - in an active job, in the public eye. You’ve been diagnosed with congestive heart failure and ordered to bed rest. Imagine that your heart is working at one-third capacity. BY LESLIE CARDÉ | Special to The Advocate – 6:00 PM
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