Meet 39-year-old woman who carries her Heart in a bag everywhere she goes

30/09/2020

Selwa Hussain, from east London in a town called llford carries her hear in backpack to travel everywhere she goes.

The 39-year-old mother of two kids undergone a heart surgery 3 years ago. The surgery led to replacement of her faulty heart with an artificial one which she carries everywhere with her.

Selwa Hussain’s backpack contains two sets of batteries for power & a motor pumping blood to her body. The two large plastic tubes emerging from backpack enter her body through her tummy button & travel up to her chest.
Hussain also has a second unit on standby in another backpack in case the first one fails.

According to BBC, she is the very first person in UK to leave the hospital with an artificial heart. Doctors says she can live a normal life until a donor pops up.

In an interview, Selwa revealed that when her daughter was 6 months old,she started to experience water retention and then she started to feel some chest pain and breathing problems. She told BBC.

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