Sofia Hart is bravely sharing her heart condition with the world.
The TikToker gave followers a look into how she lives while attached to a life-saving medical device called an LVAD—a left ventricular assist device—which keeps her heart pumping.
“Hello, I’m Sofia,” the 30-year-old said in a July TikTok video. “I run off batteries, literally, and I don’t have a pulse. I’m a human without a pulse, it’s true. I’m not making it up.”
Sofia added, “I am on a device—I guess you can just call it a life support device called an LVAD and it’s called a left ventricular assistive device and it pumps to the left side of my heart.”
Although the Massachusetts native noted that viewers wouldn’t be able to see her scar, she did reflect on where it came from.
“I had open heart surgery at the end of November to implant the device that’s inside of me that basically hugs my heart,” Sofia continued before holding up the remote and batteries that are used to control the device. “It’s on a continuous flow.”
