CHICAGO -- It was 422 days at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
That’s the length of Chicago resident Colette Hurd’s stay due to her idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension, a condition that affects blood vessels in the lungs and the right side of the heart and causes the heart and lungs to weaken over time.
“I didn’t even realize that something was wrong because I didn’t know the symptoms,” said Hurd, 57. “I just noticed that my stomach was collecting fluid and it looked like I was about eight months pregnant.
