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Get Adobe Flash PlayerHeartMate GoGear™ Wearables: Tailored For Life
The new HeartMate GoGear Wearables provide comfortable transport options that safely hold HeartMate System Components, allowing patients to return to an active lifestyle with renewed quality of life.
Patient Stories
"Thanks to the HeartMate II, my energy is wonderful. I am strong and I have my life back. I feel absolutely great, and because I feel so good my life is easy." - Denise
Patient Stories
"I have a good life right now and [the HeartMate] keeps me there, keeps me going, keeps me happy." - Dave
Patient Stories
"You don't know how much you really love to live life until you are facing the possibility that it might not be there." - Amy
Patient Stories
"My main worry was I didn't want to sit on the porch, taking pills, and not have some type of life." - Johnny
Patient Stories
"I can get up in the morning, ride my bicycle. I can rake the leaves and mow the lawn. I have no problems going up and down stairs." - Jake
Patient Stories
"I've been able to do everything and more than what I expected to be able to do other than I can't swim in the pool. But that's O.K., I can live with that." - Gerald
Patient Stories
"My doctor knew nothing about it, even my cardiologist didn't know about it and they're both just ecstatic and wanting to learn and now they know that there's hope for their other patients." - Doug
Patient Stories
"If I were talking to somebody who was trying to make the decision whether or not to get a heart pump I would definitely say to go ahead and do it." - Janna
Patient Stories
"I've had an LVAD now for six years, and six years ago, you know, they did not give me a chance." - Sherri