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I love long acting nitrates!
- By NewAllie · Posted August 18, 2009
- 3 recommendations
- This board has become such an important part of my life that I cannot help but feel the need to apologize for my absence. So many posts I would have responded to. So many new members I would have welcomed ...
Easter Morning
- By NewAllie · Posted April 12, 2009
- 3 recommendations
- I feel like I'm a caterpillar in a cocoon. I've lost all those legs and my old body and identity and I'm waiting, incubating; and like a cocoon, fragile. I've read that if you try to help the baby butterfly ...
Cardiac Patients: Obtain record copies now
- By martzj · Posted February 24, 2009
- 3 recommendations
- Stop trusting US medical staff to take charge of your record transfers between. The odds of this happening with zero errors are not in your favor. HIPPA means that all US citizens are entitled (whether ...
Prinzmetal Study
- By MoonFairy13 · Posted November 5, 2008
- 3 recommendations
- Just wanted to share the info on the study I have been in for quite some time. If you have or think you have Prinzmetal I would suggest you partisipating in this study. You can have your bloodwook just ...
Happiness and Heart Disease
- By sandylevin · Posted March 30, 2008
- 3 recommendations
- Today I drank a cup of Yogi tea. I love the little inspirational thoughts printed on the tags. Today's thought is "Inspiring others toward happiness brings you happiness." Since July, 2006, I've been ...
How 38 Cents Can Ruin A Day -
- By gracie62 · Posted March 6, 2008
- 3 recommendations
- As most of you know by now, I try to find humor anywhere I can. I firmly believe in the healing power of laughter. I think that laughter does a lot more good than tears or anger. But yesterday I had a ...
Bottoms of Feet Hurt - especially the Heel
- By Peggy59 · Posted November 17, 2009
- 2 recommendations
- I've had a new development in the last couple of months in that the bottom of my feet hurt, especially the left heel. I brought it up with my apt with my rheumatologist in October and he said I may need ...
Talking to Those that Have No Clue
- By Lynnedz56 · Posted November 4, 2009
- 2 recommendations
- A group of us were talking in the breakroom today at the large company I work for. They were talking about all the things done for Breast Cancer last month and I said it was a worthy cause, but were they ...
Arrhythmias
- By redhead4u777 · Posted October 8, 2009
- 2 recommendations
- In my mind I was planning out my day, mindlessly performing my pre-work morning rituals. Make my lunch-check. Iron my shirt-check. Wake up on the kitchen floor. What? Did I just faint again? On the way ...
The Truth About Heart Disease -
- By gracie62 · Posted September 22, 2009
- 2 recommendations
- For those of you who know me, you will get this. For those of you who don't, forgive my ramblings. I have gone through a lot of ups and downs since my bypass and heart attack. I feel older and wiser and ...
Guts and Glory
- By NewAllie · Posted August 27, 2009
- 2 recommendations
- Does it seem to you that the world is somehow on hold? Can you hear a strange silence? Can you feel a stillness that has descended over everything like a soft mist? Maybe it is the transition from Summer ...
Surgery tomorrow
- By Jamaicanmenuts · Posted August 13, 2009
- 2 recommendations
- So tomorrow is the big day for the angioplasty / stent on my "good leg". Of course I am hoping all will go well. And of course I took he day off today to prepare a few things. Work was NOT happy even ...
On the Jericho Road - In Need of Prayers
- By Great-gram · Posted August 10, 2009
- 2 recommendations
- Hi! Just asking all of you to pray for my husband. He took ill last night; we went to the doctor this morning - he sent us to the ER because his blood pressure is so low, (systolic went down to 60 while ...
Unexpected Treasures Found After the Storm...
- By gracie62 · Posted January 22, 2009
- 2 recommendations
- I saw an article today online. It was about a contractor cleaning hurricane debris in Galveston, TX. Our area is still in recovery from Hurricane Ike, which hit in September, 2008. This guy was raking ...
TIPS ON WALKING
- By CATHYLEWIS · Posted January 9, 2009
- 2 recommendations
- Walk Off Weight Faster Build on these 3 proven strategies to slim down and get healthy By Chris Freytag , Fitness expert Chris Freytag is the author of Shortcuts to Big Weight Loss and Move to Lose. Read ...
NEW FRIENDS THANK YOU
- By mandyblue · Posted January 4, 2009
- 2 recommendations
- Being new to these groups, I want to thank everyone of you who accepted being my friend. I want to talk to each and everyone one of you. It may take me a couple of days as I am freshly out of the hospital ...
Looking Forward - After A Very Long Year -
- By gracie62 · Posted December 30, 2008
- 2 recommendations
- A year ago my life changed forever. I went from being a 41 year old woman with heart disease and 2 stents to a 41 year old woman recovering from triple bypass surgery. The past year has been a journey ...
I get tired of pain
- By careh · Posted December 16, 2008
- 2 recommendations
- Sometimes I get tired of pain, as I'm sure so many of us here do. This past Saturday night, I got hit by horrendous pain in my chest and left shoulder which then progressed to nausea and extreme shortness ...
A change is going to come.
- By Harmonie · Posted December 8, 2008
- 2 recommendations
- Today I'm going to take back my life by eating healther and loosing weight ...
The Not Quite Calm After the Storm....
- By gracie62 · Posted September 21, 2008
- 2 recommendations
- This will be my last entry about Hurricane Ike. It will contain facts, observations, a dose of humor and end with the grieving I am experiencing. My heart has broken all over again. This post may be long ...
