Healthy Heart CHF Weak Heart
CHF (Congestive heart failure) is a disease that makes your heart weak.
Your heart is in the center of your chest. The heart’s job is to pump blood around the body.
A healthy heart is like a Super-Soaker water gun.
Super-Soakers shoot water powerfully. A healthy heart pumps blood powerfully.
THE WEAK HEART
A CHF heart, though, is weak. It’s not like a Super-Soaker. No.
It’s like one of those crummy plastic water pistols your mom used to buy you at the dime store when you were a little kid.
When you have heart failure, your heart beats weakly, so places around your body get less blood than they need. And you feel tired and run down.
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