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My name is Erica Russell and I am an adult congenital patient.
I was born cyanotic, which is blue baby.
So my parents knew from the get-go
that I had health issues.
So when I was three days old I was brought here to UK.
I've been at UK my entire life.
Well, since I was three days old-- same thing.
The environment has always been great,
it's just the staff have always been friendly,
they're kind of like an extended family,
for the most part, because I've spent so much time with them.
So it's been recently the new group with Dr. Leventhal
and Jessica, they're pretty much just like close family.
So you have your related family and then
you have your medical family, which
is just as important because you have to know
who to ask some questions to.
That, as great as your relative family is, they're not doctors.
So it's always good to kind of have that life line to call
and ask that question when you don't understand
exactly what that result meant.
So having somebody to actually talk that
understands it is huge.
I don't see another surgery in the near future, or any
that I've been alerted to.
So I'm kind of in that point where
I'm just like anybody else walking down the street.
You don't know what's going to happen,
so you just kind of have to live every day to figure it out.