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Daniel Phan was in heart failure and days from undergoing lifesaving surgery when he and his girlfriend, Julia, decided to get married — in the ICU.on PinterestDaniel and Julia Phan on their wedding day in the ICU.

Daniel Phan was in heart failure and days from undergoing lifesaving surgery when he and his girlfriend, Julia, decided to get married — in the ICU.

on PinterestDaniel and Julia Phan on their wedding day in the ICU. Daniel Phan

Daniel and Julia Phan met when they were kids after Daniel’s parents hired Julia’s mom to work at their nail salon.

“We were the same age. I went to her house when I was, like, eight years old, not knowing she was going to be my future wife,” Daniel told Healthline.

While the two drifted apart for several years, they reconnected on Facebook after college in 2014, but it wasn’t until 2023, when they were both in their early 30s, that they began dating.

“I reached out because I saw [on Facebook] that she was at a concert and I love concerts, so I asked her if she wanted to go to a concert with me,” said Daniel. “And that’s how it started.”

About a year into dating, the couple discussed marriage; however, their path to tying the knot took a turn when Daniel became ill.

Living with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy 

When Daniel was 11 years old, he was diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), a genetic heart disease in which the heart muscle becomes too thick, making it harder to pump blood.

Daniel’s older sister also has the condition, and their mom carried the genetic mutation that causes HCM.

Shortly after his diagnosis, he got a pacemaker.

“I was excluded from many activities like sports,” he said. “It was a very sad, traumatic time.”

Playing guitar and drums became his outlet, and he went through high school without any major health incidents.

However, in his early 20s, he had a few occurrences where he over-exerted himself exercising, causing him to pass out and end up in the emergency room.

Then in 2024, he began having arrhythmias without exerting himself.

On January 15, 2025, he was sitting on his couch watching TV and experienced an intense arrhythmia.

“It was the worst one. I was super dizzy, threw up everywhere, my heart wouldn’t calm down…so I called 911, and they showed up, and I ended up in the ER for a week in Gainesville Northeast Georgia,” said Daniel.

Because Daniel was in heart failure, he was transferred to Piedmont Heart in Atlanta, where he originally hoped to receive a heart transplant.

Turning to LVAD when a heart transplant isn’t an option

Circumstances didn’t allow Daniel to receive a heart transplant, and he ended up getting a Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD).

LVADs are recommended when patients have heart failure that has become refractory to medical therapy, said Sagar Damle, MD, cardiothoracic surgeon at Piedmont Heart.

“In this situation, the heart is too weak to adequately pump blood to the entire body, and patients have worsening heart failure. They usually have significant symptoms, such as shortness of breath with activity, fatigue, and tiredness,” he told Healthline. “When medications are no longer effective, LVADs, and sometimes transplant, are the next steps.”

The LVAD works like a water pump, taking blood from the left ventricle

Uzziniet vairāk par matu transplantācija klīnikā Rubenhair.