New Orleans-area woman shares journey to her heart diagnosis [Video]

It’s a situation no one wants to find themselves in. For Natasha Smith-Lewis, it started with shortness of breath and a sharp pain. “I was 42. I was trying to exercise. I was dancing, and suddenly I got a really sharp debilitating pain right in my left collarbone.”The married mother of three said she shrugged it off as stress or exhaustion. “My pain began to snowball. It was at that point I said, ‘Something is going on with me.'”Lewis said her primary care doctor told her nothing was wrong. “I ended up going to seven cardiologists. One internist. I ended up having two emergency room visits. And still no diagnosis. But I knew something was going wrong. My symptoms had gotten so bad it was difficult to even walk to my vehicle from the house. It’s only 20 feet away,” Lewis said. WDSU’s Shay O’Connor asked Lewis if she felt …