Transcript:
Kylie: I’ve never had surgery before and to have surgery and to be told that at 22 you need something that is the size of a tape measure, at the time what I thought was going to be put in me. I was just overwhelmed
Dr Cooper: The next point was to convince her she needed it. You know, when you’re that age and out of college and you’re otherwise very healthy, which she is. She’s extremely healthy. You think you’re invincible.
Mom: Kylie told me that she didn’t really want the device, I think, number one. Because it was this big object
Dr Cooper: I just talked with her about the different companies that I use and what the defibrillators look like. And showed them to her. And, you know, she looked at them and made her decision that she wanted the device that was the flattest, that would probably be less likely to be apparent. And that’s why she chose the Boston Scientific device.
Kylie: It made my decision. The size made my decision. Before I realized that there was something out there that was that thin like the Boston Scientific device, I had said, No. I had decided against the surgery.
Mom: Two weeks after the surgery, Kylie had an episode that we had an opportunity to find out that the defibrillator actually worked.
Kylie: It’s perfectly fine. I don’t feel any different. I can’t feel it in me. I don’t feel it when I lay down. I don’t feel it when I raise my arm. People hug me, they don’t feel it. You know, you don’t see it.
It’s nice. I would recommend this device out of all the other ones just because this one is the thinnest.
