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The term 'heart failure' was too general for him to grasp.
Heart failure. You see, if somebody says you've got a lump, a cancerous lump or a tumour you know that you physically have got a cancer and it's in your lung or it's wherever it is, and it can easily be cut out or it can't. Heart failure is a wee bit more hazy, it's not a definite. What causes heart failure? Is it because I've got two duff walls in my heart? Is it the leaky valve? What is it? Is it, was it, was it the blocked? Is it a whole... you know? So its a collective title 'heart failure', whereas that doesn't really worry me but its not as specific as some illnesses. I think that's it. Heart failure can cover a lot of things and sometimes its not too serious, sometimes its very serious.