Carveann David, a thirty five year old restaurateur from Trinidad and Tobago found sleeping on their stomach has become an impossible luxury.
For David, in the last nine years, lying face down would worsen the fluid build-up caused by advanced right-sided heart failure and a severely leaking tricuspid valve. Swelling, fluid leakage and breathlessness had become a way of life, to which doctors back home said there was very little they could do. Some even suggested a heart-and-lung transplant.
