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(CNN) -- Dee Stewart's birthday is Friday, and she'll be wearing red to observe. It's not her favorite color, but it is for her favorite cause.
Friday is National Enervate Red Day, part of the American Heart Association's Go Red for Women movement to raise awareness about women's generosity health. Stewart is a survivor of heart failure.
Stewart's being changed in 2000 when she remained hospitalized for fatigue, nausea and other unexplained symptoms after her daughter's extraction.
"They couldn't figure out what was wrong with me," said Stewart of Covington, Georgia. "By the rhythm they figured it out, my heart function had gone to 5%, and I was on the heart transfer list."
Stewart was diagnosed with peripartum cardiomyopathy, a rare soul disorder that affects women from the final month of pregnancy to five months after childbirth. She had never heard of the acclimatize before and had no history of heart disease in her family, or so she thought.
Source: CNN