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All right. It is Mojo in the morning. Could you imagine this? You're 21 years old and you think that you're the healthiest ever. When you're 21 years old, honestly, you live life like, you know, every day is going to be your last because you're partying and you're having fun and all this stuff happens to you that, you know, happens and you just got to work off the hangovers and all the partiness the next day. Well, imagine you're 21 years old and you start feeling tired. You start having, you know, a little bit of draining in your life where you're like, oh, God, I'm just not feeling great. And then you end up having what could be a life-threatening, ending heart issue. On the phone with us right now is Keyshawn Spencer as we continue with Heart Month and our friends over at Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan, and the Frankel Cardiovascular Center, awareness of heart disease. Keyshawn, you're now 31 years old, so this was 10 years ago, right? Yes, it was. How you doing, Keyshawn?

I'm doing pretty good. How are you doing?

Fantastic. So where were you 10 years ago? Tell us the symptoms that you were being faced with.

I was in Battle Creek, Michigan when all this happened 10 years ago. I was feeling tired. The main symptom that I was having in the warning sign for me was I couldn't keep nothing down, especially water. I couldn't keep anything down. So I was like literally going to work, still like doing day-to-day lives, but still wasn't able to hold down water. And that last time, like I threw up water, that's when I'm like, yeah, I need to go get checked out for real.

What did you do for a living? What were you doing?

I was a cook at Applebee's and I was going to school. I was in college at that time.

Did you think at the time it was just exhaustion from working and going to school and all that?

Um, I thought I was getting the flu, honestly.

Yeah. And so you finally, when you're not able to keep water down, which by the way, some of the other signs too are what? Not sleeping.

Yeah, I'm not able to sleep. Like I stayed up a lot. Um, another symptoms like swollen, like being very swollen. Yeah. Cause yeah, that was what my brother had pointed out to me. Like you're very swollen and you haven't ate, you haven't done anything and you're just swollen.

Yeah. You know that feeling that you get after you eat a bunch of salty food and you feel puffy and your feet is a big thing, too. A lot of people don't know this. If you look at your socks and if you have indentation on your legs and stuff from your socks, a lot of times you could be retaining water, which could be a sign of heart disease. So, Keyshawn, you finally go to the doctor and what ends up happening?

Yeah, I end up going to the ER three times, actually. So I ended up going to the ER, and that first two times, they were like, it's nothing. It was the flu. But that last time, like, thank God for that ER doctor. He was like, yeah, you need to go to your prime care position. You need to go get an appointment with her, like, immediately. And, you know, I got admitted to the hospital. They let me know that I was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy, and you need to get in touch with your primary care physician. So that was the real big eye-opener, and I really didn't take it serious. If I'm being quite honest, I really wasn't taking it serious. I was like, you know, it was just like,

little phase like i don't know what because i really didn't draft the information that i was getting they were they were throwing a lot at me so i guess i should say i was a little bit overwhelmed yeah so i wasn't taking it too serious so i was like ducking off and not paying attention

but you know it's funny is i i've talked about this with heart disease heart disease is like the hidden killer because when it happens you're done it's not like cancer where you get diagnosed and they're like, okay, we got a form of treatment here. It's like you get diagnosed with heart disease when you die or you have a heart attack or in your case, you can't keep water down. And unfortunately, if we all had the awareness ahead of time to keep some things out of our lives or just know that our genetics aren't in the greatest and we got to be aware of this. But we put it off. We think it's the flu. Everybody's got the flu. And now with the flu around, You guys got to make sure that if you're not feeling good, that in this case, like what Keyshawn would go to the doctor all the time, they kept saying to him, eh, you're okay.

I feel like a lot of people I've heard say they knew in their gut that there was more to it than that. Yeah, like thank God you advocated for yourself.

I definitely did. I kept going. I kept going to the, like me and my sister kept going to the ER like every day. like every other day after i get out of work yeah like this is not it like this was not no just ordinary because i'm like i can't keep down water like that was my biggest thing like i can't keep down water and i'm like i can't keep nothing down i can't eat i couldn't keep down even apple sauce like that was all i was eating at that time too so yeah i would try to eat apple sauce couldn't

keep it down well and a lot of times people build up this where they feel like they have anxiety And anxiety is definitely something that people realistically have. But a lot of times you could be having symptoms. And so one of the things that we want everybody to know, and Michigan Medicine is so great at this, is build awareness. Talk to your primary care. Get a primary care. A lot of times you're 21 years old, you don't even have a doctor, right? You go to an urgent care. If you're not going to see a doctor on a regular basis, yearly basis, and you're not advocating for yourself, nobody's advocating for you. So now you're 31 years old. How's your health? How's everything going? I know you've been doing a lot with Frankl.

Yeah, everything is really good, really, really good right now. Like, I feel like I'm in the best health form-wise as I could be, honestly. Like, I'm doing everything that I should be doing. I feel like, for me, I really advocate myself even after having the LVAD. I'm like, you know, the first couple years was definitely a struggle. It was no easy road, I tell you that. What changes have you made?

what like daily changes have you made because you said you feel good you're living healthier

um i'm just getting out i'm just being proactive like if you just get out and be proactive i always say positive affirmations to myself like i'm very positive i keep being positive because if you are not positive this thing will take you down like seriously because i'm like depression is definitely the thing that will take you down so definitely keep yourself i just see all the

changes that mojo has made since your heart surgery i mean truly you get so much movement in now the way that you eat changed you are a crazy person about your sleep and these are all things that whether you've received a diagnosis in relation to heart health or not we should all

be doing well and in my and honestly my fear also is this sometimes the healthiest of people the people who are the most active don't realize that their genetics are causing for this knowing that your family has something in your family like there's a heart disease in your family is one of the first things and if you got it in your family then just understand there's a very good chance you could get it so why not just become more aware and have conversations and that's what michigan medicine is really all about is the awareness now don't just use them when you need to have the surgery, use them to continue with your heart health. Keyshawn, I love that you came on the air with us because a lot of times people don't want to talk about this because it's embarrassing to be 21 years old and say, I got a heart issue, but you know what? You just saved lives by talking about it on the radio, buddy.

Definitely. I appreciate that. But yeah, definitely folks really like really going to get checked out. As soon as you start having symptoms, like don't be like me, like ignoring the symptoms a little bit and then start advocating for yourself when like there's really like you know your head deep in it just go get yourself checked out I always I tell these people because I live in Michigan Atlanta Michigan now I advocate for myself all the time and I tell these younger kids these younger people like you know go get checked out go go to the hospital go to the doctors stop going to urgent care like go get you a primary care physician like you really got to Start taking care of you.

ourselves like the partying and drinking that can wait like but your health i'm like it can decline

anytime you get one shot yeah thank you buddy i appreciate you going on the air with us and uh thank you to michigan medicine for all they're doing to build awareness for heart uh healthy

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