- [Katie]

My husband and I are both from Western New York. His job brought him to Kentucky. I have arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia, which is a rare condition. My doctor at the University of Rochester, my electrophysiologist had done some training with Doctor Tomassoni and thought very highly of him.

- [Dr. Tomassoni]

So, Katie was a patient that I saw back in 2008 for the first time. She has an extremely rare cardiomyopathy, which occurs in 1 out of 5,000 patients. And what happens in these situations are that the muscle tissue gets replaced by fat and scar tissue. And this leads to a weak heart pump and leads to the possibility of having bad rhythms that can make her heart stop.

She had failed medications to prevent these bad rhythms that were making her pass out and having substantial symptoms. Since the medications weren't working, we offered her procedures, which are called catheter ablations to try to destroy the tissue that was causing these bad rhythms in the lower part of her heart. She only went two procedures at that time, and we were able to ablate five different areas that were causing bad rhythms for her - Ever since then, you know, I have been under control with medication. I think that the ablations were the key to everything.

He is an amazing person to me. He is, you know, brilliant and skilled and he's a good man. He is a good man. We adopted my son and my heart initially became a big center focus of that adoption.

Doctor Tomassoni and his staff were incredible to me. He did a three-hour deposition for me. His nurses were so fired up. They were ready to take on the world for me, and that was just a very special.

- We worked together, provided the support areas that she needed with the information that was important for them to understand that she would be a great mother, whether she had the heart condition or not. The emotional part is just as important as the physical part. So, we always aim to not only treat the physical components, but also the emotional components for patients.

- I have been a school psychologist for, I think I'm starting the 18th, 19th year. And absolutely, it was what I was meant to do. ...do my job or working with parents, I tell them, you know, you can't raise your child feeling sorry for them if they have a delay or a health condition or something, because that's not going to help them. And it's the very same truth for yourself.

You can't be worried about yourself all the time, that restricts your life, it makes your life very small.

- Katie is doing great. She's doing everything she ever wanted to do. And I'm so proud of where she is with things. And I'm so happy we were able to provide this medical care for her.

So, I might be a little biased, but I think that the Baptist System in Kentucky is by far the best in Kentucky and probably is the top in the nation as well.

- I am so blessed to have landed where I did, and I guess you have Doctor Tomassoni be, you know, less than an hour away. He's just, you know, brilliant, he's an expert. And that I get him for my doctor is pretty amazing. ♪ [music]

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