concern, with one doctor connecting her to Dr. Jorge Salazar, a cardiovascular surgeon who specializes in congenital heart defects in children and adults.
Talking to him was a revelation.
“I felt like Dr. Salazar was the first person who really believed me that something was wrong,” she said.
He arranged for her to see a cardiologist in the Boston Adult Congenital Heart service at Boston Children’s Hospital, where he was practicing at the time.
A cardiac MRI given at her first visit answered a lifetime of questions. It showed Oyler was born with an atrial septal defect, a hole in the wall that separates the top two
