Heart To Heart With Anna

Send us a textWhat are some of the dangers of addiction when you have a Fontan heart? How does a Heart Warrior who has addiction problems break free from the addiction? What new project is Joe Flowers embarking upon in 2023?Today’s show is Addiction and Congenital Heart Defects and our Guest is Joe Flowers. We’ll start today’s program by learning a bit about Joe in Segment 1. In the second segment, we’re going to talk about complications that Joe has had and in the third segment, we’ll discuss Joe’s pacemaker and future prognosis.Joe Flowers was born in 1980 with Tricuspid Atresia, an ASD, and a VSD. He had a chronic sinus infection in his early life but remained well enough to avoid heart surgery until the age of 11 years. He had a modified Fontan which was successful and he enjoyed good heart health for almost 20 years. In 2009 at the age of 29, he was diagnosed with ventricular tachycardia, for which he received a defibrillator. Around this time, Joe also had back surgery. Unfortunately, a private struggle