It's funny how that is. I have been trying to keep up with this story also.
By the way, I'm her mom, if that wasn't clear in the last post. Her father and I didn't intend to have this turn into an urban legend, but like a story in a small town it seams to be going that way. We just wanted to let people know what hypertrophy cardiomyopathy. We had no clue until June 22. Just look it up on the net... id doesn't matter what health your in, if your fat, or thin, if you work out or sit on your butt all day. That is only one test that can find it. There are no symptoms until you drop. Most people die of it. but its in the genes, so if one person has it then they got it for some one else. Kimber got it from me, we are very lucky her brother doesn't have it, but the rest of my family is getting tested.
It's hypertrophy cardiomyopathy that had made her heart stop. With hypertrophy cardiomyopathy you can be sitting, walking, sleeping, or playing a game, and your heart stop. It has noting to do with DDR. We told our story to the news to let people know that this heart condition is out there, and it's a killer. We were very lucky that Kimber was not killed, she was in the right place with all the right people around her. I didn't know I had it until my husband and I went and got tested 3 days after Kimber collapsed. The only test you can do to find out if you have it is an echocardiogram, a simple EKG won't find it.
We didn't tell this story to make people stop using DDR, I think it's a good game for kids, maybe not for ones with hypertrophy cardiomyopathy, but it gets other kids up and moving.
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It's funny how that is. I have been trying to keep up with this story also. By the way, I'm her mom, if that wasn't clear in the last post. Her father and I didn't intend to have this turn into an urban legend, but like a story in a small town it seams to be going that way. We just wanted to let people know what hypertrophy cardiomyopathy. We had no clue until June 22. Just look it up on the net... id doesn't matter what health your in, if your fat, or thin, if you work out or sit on your butt all day. That is only one test that can find it. There are no symptoms until you drop. Most people die of it. but its in the genes, so if one person has it then they got it for some one else. Kimber got it from me, we are very lucky her brother doesn't have it, but the rest of my family is getting tested.
It's hypertrophy cardiomyopathy that had made her heart stop. With hypertrophy cardiomyopathy you can be sitting, walking, sleeping, or playing a game, and your heart stop. It has noting to do with DDR. We told our story to the news to let people know that this heart condition is out there, and it's a killer. We were very lucky that Kimber was not killed, she was in the right place with all the right people around her. I didn't know I had it until my husband and I went and got tested 3 days after Kimber collapsed. The only test you can do to find out if you have it is an echocardiogram, a simple EKG won't find it. We didn't tell this story to make people stop using DDR, I think it's a good game for kids, maybe not for ones with hypertrophy cardiomyopathy, but it gets other kids up and moving.