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Dr. Michael Duerr admitted Britt and scheduled a stress met in my life. I wouldn’t ask for anything to be any dif-
test, which showed the need for heart catheterization. ferent. I was very impressed.”
Britt’s mother and an uncle had both passed away after
heart attacks in their 40s, but Britt had always felt relative- About the 2019 SeHealth Foundation Gala
ly healthy, so he was shocked to think he had come close to
the same fate at age 46. The Gala was held on Friday, Feb. 22, at the Southeast-
ern N.C. Agricultural Center. The funds raised from the
“Then the news came, I was going to need bypass surgery. gala this year will go towards purchasing equipment for
You want to talk about rocking a man’s world, a man who advanced cardiology studies in the Southeastern Health
was full of pride and didn’t like to cry,” he wrote in his Heart and Vascular Cath Lab. Advancing the complexity
letter. “God has a way of doing it, and he did. I was then of cases will allow for even more heart care to be provided
moved to the CVICU, where I met a lot of new faces and in the heart of our community.
realized how special family and friends are.”
Contact the SeHealth Foundation at (910) 671-5583 or
In the days leading up to his surgery, Britt, his wife, Amy, [email protected] or visit the unique
and their children, Taylor and Christian, were visited by a gala website at https://one.bidpal.net/2019sehealthfoun-
lot of friends and family who came to pray and speak with dationgala/welcome to support Southeastern Health Heart
them. Some of them also tried to encourage Britt to have his and Vascular to make a donation.
surgery performed somewhere else.

“There was no harm meant, just people’s opinions, but I
can say this, if God wanted me in Fayetteville, Durham,
Wilmington, or anywhere else he would have put me there,
but he had me here at Southeastern Health for such a time
as this,” Britt wrote.

Three years later, Britt still can’t say enough about all the
Southeastern Health doctors and staff who helped take care
of him. He is Risen!!!

“I can speak from my experience, they are some of the most
professional people with a family atmosphere that I have
ever seen,” he wrote. “To all the staff of the ER, Dr. Walters
and his staff, the CVICU, Dr. Lowry and his staff, and all
the other staff of Southeastern Health, I want to thank you
for a great job, great experience, and I hope God continues
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the anniversary of his surgery.

“He knows all the people who took care of him,” Amy Britt
said.

Some things have changed for Britt after his surgery, like
getting more exercise and eating less steaks and fried food,
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