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Scar Photo Essay

TheGoodEye
  • By TheGoodEye · New reply yesterday at 7:57 pm
  • Discussion in Life after heart bypass surgery · 2 replies
  • I'm a photographer working on a photo essay on scars.The goal of this photographic art project is to document the impact of current surgical techniques on the human body. It is also intended to capture ...

Why are we here?

Brian
  • By Brian · New reply November 28, 2008
  • Journal · 134 replies
  • When we started this community, each of us faced important health issues in our lives. Some of us have family members with medical conditions. Many of us have medical conditions of our own. All of us ...

myheartbypass.blogspot.com

bookman58
  • By bookman58 · Posted November 18, 2008
  • Journal · 0 replies
  • Please visit my blog about my experiences as a heart bypass survivor ...

Pre surgery worries

kath1200
  • By kath1200 · New reply November 17, 2008
  • Discussion in Pre-surgery worries · 2 replies
  • Hi there, My mother has been told that she needs to have a triple bypass and she just keeps saying how scared she is. She is putting it off and putting it off due to fear of the heart-lung machine - she ...

Pacemakers after CABG: how common?

Aamos
  • By Aamos · Posted August 9, 2008
  • Discussion in Rehabilitation and continuing treatment · 0 replies
  • My husband recently had a 4x bypass. He's 52, with an EF of 57%. His docs are now talking about an ICD. I've read that VT is not an uncommon after-effect of CABG. Anyone else experienced this, and if ...

Upcoming improvements to the messaging system

Walter
  • By Walter · New reply July 7, 2008
  • Journal · 23 replies
  • Hello everyone. I'm writing to let you know about some long overdue improvements that we'll be making to this site's messaging system later this week. The messages section is the most frequently visited ...

Improvements to the message system are complete

Walter
  • By Walter · New reply June 22, 2008
  • Journal · 14 replies
  • Hello everyone. Just a quick note to let you know that the improvements to the message system that I wrote about previously are complete. You can check them out now. You'll notice that we've grouped your ...

Sometimes we make mistakes

Brian
  • By Brian · New reply May 27, 2008
  • Journal · 35 replies
  • Two months ago, when we launched Inspire 2.0, we added a group called 'Team Inspire'. We did this with the best intentions: we wanted the group to be a space for new members to get oriented, ask questions ...

Welcome from TeamInspire!

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · New reply April 7, 2008
  • Journal · 35 replies
  • Hello, old friends and new. Today is a big day for us! We have made numerous improvements to your community, most that were suggestions from you. As you can see the site is very different then before ...

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