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- By nanamo · New reply 10:22 am
- Journal · 3 replies
- i read all the articles and i still see women getting the shaft when it comes to health care i dont understand............. so many women die from this diseae and yet i see stories of breast cancer on ...
- By simpleshane29 · Posted January 5, 2009
- Discussion in Living with heart disease · 0 replies
- hello everyone, i'm new here in this group and i want to meet new friends here. living w/ heart disease is verry risky. i was confined in the hospital twice last november bcoz i couldn't breath and my ...
- By 1spudcat · New reply January 4, 2009
- Journal · 17 replies
- My Esther Willam's Moment popped up again on this site just like my noodle rocketing out of the water on that day of infamy. I read it again and it made me laugh out loud. It pleases me no end that others ...
- By BarbA · New reply December 31, 2008
- Journal · 22 replies
- I am not sure that this is ok to do, I just need your prayers, I have been fighting for disability since 1-1-2005 due to my heart attack and triple by pass on 9-18-2004, I found out that I had a dissection ...
- By 1spudcat · New reply December 30, 2008
- Journal · 29 replies
- "I'm late ! I'm late! I'm late for a very important date." said the white rabbit and Me! I have the day off and have been sitting around in my bathrobe. It wasn't until I turned the computer on around ...
- By nanamo · New reply December 28, 2008
- Journal · 3 replies
- today i wa shopping at kb toys looking at their sale well i go to the barbies and what do i find a limited edtion go red for women barbie in a red dress has amercian heart assco on it and all i bought ...
- By joannemsw · New reply December 22, 2008
- Journal · 5 replies
- This past year has been a hard year. In 2000 I had a couple of atrial fibralations and not to many in between. This year I've had many and November I had over 20. They have run stress test, sleep study ...
- By Brian · New reply December 16, 2008
- Journal · 136 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 ...
- By junimead · New reply December 7, 2008
- Journal · 14 replies
- I was sitting at this very computer looking up some silly thing or another when I started to feel faint and get the then ever increasing chest pains. A painfully long trip to the emergency room via ambulance ...
- By 1spudcat · New reply December 5, 2008
- Journal · 18 replies
- Laura noted this thread is fizzling and if it were not for her it would be fizzled. For me, I love this easy find post focused on one of the most critical areas we need to address in our lives. I love ...
- By mamalaine · New reply December 4, 2008
- Journal · 7 replies
- Hello, Friends, I am still working on completing "My body, myself." In the meantime, I submit a story I wrote for my friends and family a few weeks after my HA. (Sorry, it is a little lengthy.) A Cautionary ...
- By 1spudcat · New reply November 29, 2008
- Journal · 9 replies
- Recently, I had not responded to Week Twelve's Throwdown. After reading all the good reports that were shared, I felt that what I had to say would be such a "bummer". Things have not been going well ...
- By Basha · Posted November 23, 2008
- Discussion in Living with heart disease · 0 replies
- My husband had CHF last month, he still is feeling weak and fatigued all the time. Part of his problem is he's weaning off benzos (klonapine, etc). How long does it take to feel better after heart failure ...
- By 1spudcat · New reply November 14, 2008
- Journal · 38 replies
- Wow, ten weeks have passed!!!! Do you believe it!!!! Well enough of the exclamation marks. But isn't it great we have maintained this virtual living room of friends coming together to share our ups and ...
- By 1spudcat · New reply November 2, 2008
- Journal · 21 replies
- Well as some of you know I have joined the YWCA's aqua-cise classes to keep this heart healing and building collaterals. The instructor suggested if we found the exercises easy to take off our flotation ...
- By mamalaine · New reply October 27, 2008
- Journal · 9 replies
- "I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. . . . . For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. For I do not do ...
- By 1spudcat · New reply October 4, 2008
- Journal · 11 replies
- In January of 2008 I found this site from reading Kathy Kastan's book. I had reached a point in my recovery were I needed to understand more about what happened to me. I went on Amazon.com and started ...
- By pjalford · New reply September 14, 2008
- Journal · 2 replies
- Pat was discharged from the hospital this afternoon!!! The doctors came in and discussed it and decided they couldn't think of a reason to keep her in the hospital for another day or more, so they did ...
- By 1spudcat · New reply September 12, 2008
- Journal · 38 replies
- I have been reading all these posts about exercise, people who have lost weight or need to lose weight. So I need to share this post/rant!!!! Most of my life I was such a jock but it had to be a team ...
- By pjalford · New reply September 11, 2008
- Journal · 5 replies
- Bill called me around 1:00 PM Tuesday afternoon and said that Pat had come out of surgery around 11:15 AM. He said that the doctor said that everything went as expected - they did the aortic heart valve ...
