'No doubt, I got dangerously comfortable with discomfort.'
Darlene Scott, as told to Lauren KrouseIn the spring of 2016, I was 41 years old and training for my seventh marathon. At one point during a run, I suddenly felt as if I was only breathing from the top of my chest. It was as if there was a lump in my throat preventing me from taking deep breaths. I went from running 25 miles a week—five miles, five days a week—to struggling just to get through the first mile.
But I kept thinking that I needed to train harder, so I increased the diversity, duration, and intensity of my workouts. I cross-trained with Bikram yoga, bought a bike, added a Vitamin B12 supplement to my regimen, and went to bed earlier. No doubt, I got dangerously comfortable with discomfort.It seemed like I was always foggy and could never get enough rest, no matter how early I went to bed or how late I allowed myself to sleep in.
Given that I always had some fatigue, the primary care doctor I saw told me to stop doing so much, take it easy, go to bed, and up my calorie intake. But I explained that this fatigue was different. I was sleepy even when I’d had a full night’s rest and I was still having trouble achieving my typical running pace, despite all of the changes I’d made to my training.
That afternoon, I learned that I did not have exercise-induced asthma after all. I was diagnosed with heart failure. Within an hour, that changed. As the cardiologist went over the aspects of my disease and I began to settle into the news, I became scared and nervous. I had only associated the term"I believed that I was a healthy person, so I thought I could 'health' my way out of heart failure."
I called my parents to share my diagnosis and learned my grandmother and I had the same condition: dilated cardiomyopathy.
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