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- By nanamo · Posted 9:08 am
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- 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 nanamo · Posted December 27, 2008
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- 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 1spudcat · Posted December 26, 2008
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- "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 joannemsw · Posted December 21, 2008
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- 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 BarbA · Posted December 8, 2008
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- 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 · Posted November 29, 2008
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- 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 1spudcat · Posted November 28, 2008
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- 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 1spudcat · Posted November 6, 2008
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- 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 · Posted November 3, 2008
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- 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 mamalaine · Posted October 23, 2008
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- "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 · Posted October 4, 2008
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- 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 1spudcat · Posted October 2, 2008
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- 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 junimead · Posted October 1, 2008
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- 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 mamalaine · Posted September 30, 2008
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- 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 pjalford · Posted September 13, 2008
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- 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 pjalford · Posted September 10, 2008
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- 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 ...
- By pjalford · Posted September 9, 2008
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- Pat is in surgery as I write this. The surgery was to be on Wednesday morning, but when they were at the pre-op consultation on Monday, they were informed that there was a cancellation (don't know why ...
- By 1spudcat · Posted September 4, 2008
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- Well here we are one week later and I am following Laura's organizational suggestions to get this baby up and running. Basically, I blurted out my feelings and Laura has created a plan of action taking ...
- By pjalford · Posted September 4, 2008
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- Here in Central Mississippi Hurricane Gustav has been more of a nuisance than anything else. My apartment building never did lose power and the only effects we got from him were some wind and rain - the ...
- By 1spudcat · Posted August 30, 2008
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- I know this is not a forum for gallbladder miseries but I know there maybe someone out there that has info. My Dad is also a MI and quad bypass surivivor at 83. I googled and got lots of info including ...