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Cendrine, 34 years old

Cendrine, 34 years old

“My leg was hurting for several days. Then slowly my foot started turning blue. I ended up not being able to put any weight on it. My doctor sent me to the hospital. I’ve been smoking around one and a half packs a day since I was 16 and I’ve been taking the pill for about the same amount of time. The tests showed that an artery in my leg was blocked and blood wasn’t getting to my foot anymore. The surgeon decided to amputate it to save the rest of my leg. My world fell apart. I had to rethink everything: the kids going back to school, work, home… the shock was incredibly brutal. People talk about heart attacks, but don’t talk enough about arterial disease.”

 
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Sophie, 34 years old

Manager (Hinges)

I’m the proud mom of a little four-month-old girl. Something unique about me: I had a heart transplant three years ago. It saved my life and allowed me to fulfill my dream of becoming a mother, something that had been completely inaccessible before. That’s because I’d been diagnosed with [...]

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Flora, 39 years old

Baker in Villefranche de Rouergue, France

I had a huge shock when my daughter was born seven years ago. She was my second child. My first birth went smoothly, so I wasn’t worried about anything in particular. I worked until two weeks before my due date and was pretty proud of how my pregnancy had gone. When I got to the maternity ward at [...]

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