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		<title>News flash: care improves when doctors consider the whole person</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2013/05/15/patient-centred-decision-making/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 11:14:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Living with heart disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contextual errors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contextualized care plan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doctor patient communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Harvey Chochinov]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Saul Weiner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Victor Montori]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patient Dignity Question]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When recordings of doctor-patient interviews were reviewed to determine if patients get better care plans and decision-making outcomes when doctors pay attention to factors like financial/emotional difficulties or lack of social support, researchers found that doctors often miss important real-life red flags from their patients. Learn what research has suggested is the single most important question a doctor can ask of every patient.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&#038;blog=7235999&#038;post=18673&#038;subd=czthomas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why I&#8217;m nothing like &#8211; yet just like &#8211; my mother</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2013/05/11/like-my-mother/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 11:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Heart Sisters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mother-daughter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mothers Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[when your mother dies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By the end of our visit with my mother's friends at St. John's church kitchen, I waited to hear what I knew they would always say before I stood up to leave:
"Carolyn, you are so much like your mother!"  I cringed a bit hearing this, since I inwardly prided myself on being consciously and deliberately quite different than Mom. Or, was I?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&#038;blog=7235999&#038;post=18729&#038;subd=czthomas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A look back at nurses in 1950</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2013/05/07/a-nurses-life-in-1950/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 11:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Nursing Week]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nurses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nurses uniforms]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you are a nurse - Happy Nursing Week! As the iconic starched white nurse's cap has virtually disappeared from the modern nursing wardrobe, here's a trip down memory lane for all of my favourite nurses - with love and gratitude.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&#038;blog=7235999&#038;post=15303&#038;subd=czthomas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy 5th Heart-iversary to me!</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2013/05/06/happy-5th-heart-iversary-to-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 11:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Women and heart attacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heart-iversary]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On May 6, 2008, I was hospitalized for a myocardial infarction - heart attack - or what my doctors referred to as the "widow maker".  Happy Heart-iversary to me today! <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&#038;blog=7235999&#038;post=18980&#038;subd=czthomas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When survivors feel depressed instead of lucky</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2013/05/03/feeling-depressed-instead-of-lucky/</link>
		<comments>http://myheartsisters.org/2013/05/03/feeling-depressed-instead-of-lucky/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 11:22:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Heart disease and mental health issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[convalescence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[depression after heart attack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Peter Kramer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hospital discharge]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are many reasons why your mood might plummet after medical treatment for a serious condition, but the basic summary is simple: you have been through a very tough experience, physically and emotionally, and it takes time to recover. You are not mentally ill, you are not ungrateful or a wimp, and you do not automatically require professional help (though you may find this useful).<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&#038;blog=7235999&#038;post=17290&#038;subd=czthomas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Emotional intelligence in health care relationships</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2013/04/29/emotional-intelligence-healthcare/</link>
		<comments>http://myheartsisters.org/2013/04/29/emotional-intelligence-healthcare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colette Herrick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doctor patient communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emotional intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[empathy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although many pressures may have eroded the quality of health care relationships, the good news from former cardiac nurse Colette Herrick is that research reveals something many of us already know: health care providers can learn fairly simple communication skills that can make a big difference to their relationships with patients. But when she raises this issue with doctors and nurses, she hears: “I don’t have time” - or, when they are really being honest - “I don’t know how.”<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&#038;blog=7235999&#038;post=18413&#038;subd=czthomas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When heart patients meet the Black Swan</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2013/04/25/black-swan/</link>
		<comments>http://myheartsisters.org/2013/04/25/black-swan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:12:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living with heart disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women and heart attacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[black swan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brooke Lea Foster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Anderson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heart disease diagnosis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kaja Perina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[surviving heart attack]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Black Swan event is one that's "rare, unpredictable, and has significant repercussions." While usually referring to dramatic headline grabbers like surviving a shark attack or a plane crash, the term made me think that surviving a heart attack might well be considered a personal example of the Black Swan, too. As explained in a  Psychology Today article recently: "Survivors, no matter the particular trauma or the wreckage it leaves behind, must cope with the same emotional reality: the unthinkable did happen - to them."<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&#038;blog=7235999&#038;post=18666&#038;subd=czthomas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When doctors use words that hurt</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2013/04/21/when-doctors-use-words-that-hurt/</link>
		<comments>http://myheartsisters.org/2013/04/21/when-doctors-use-words-that-hurt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 11:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Living with heart disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doctor patient communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Bernard Lown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heart failure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iatrogenic harm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[widow maker heart attack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WPLongform]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Consider hearing the scary diagnosis of "heart failure" tripping lightly from your doctor's lips as if it were no big deal. Can there be anything more terrifying and demoralizing than hearing that your heart is "failing"? Here's why words like these that doctors say out loud to their patients can be so damaging, and why some doctors use hurtful language deliberately to gain the patient's "compliance".  <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&#038;blog=7235999&#038;post=17885&#038;subd=czthomas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yentl Syndrome: cardiology&#8217;s gender gap is alive and well</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2013/04/17/yentl-syndrome/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 11:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diagnosing - and misdiagnosing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women and heart attacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Bernadine Healy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Noel Bairey Merz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Sharonne Hayes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gender difference heart disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gender gap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WPLongform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yentl Syndrome]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yentl, the 19th-century heroine of Isaac Bashevis Singer's short story, had to disguise herself as a man to attend school. Being 'just like a man' has historically been a price women have had to pay for equality. Women have all too often been treated less than equally in society, politics, business, education, research, and yes - even in health care. Here's how the Yentl Syndrome is alive and well in cardiology.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&#038;blog=7235999&#038;post=18448&#038;subd=czthomas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Healthy Privilege&#8217; &#8211; when you just can&#8217;t imagine being sick</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2013/04/13/healthy-privilege-when-you-just-cant-imagine-being-sick/</link>
		<comments>http://myheartsisters.org/2013/04/13/healthy-privilege-when-you-just-cant-imagine-being-sick/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2013 11:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living with heart disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Ann Becker-Schutte]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Victor Montori]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healthy privilege]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quantified self]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self tracking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stanford Medicine X]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[worried well]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA["Healthy privilege allows healthy people to assume that their experience is 'normal', and to be unaware that coping strategies that work for them will not work for someone dealing with illness."<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&#038;blog=7235999&#038;post=18568&#038;subd=czthomas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Patient engagement? How about doctor engagement?</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2013/04/09/engaged-doctors/</link>
		<comments>http://myheartsisters.org/2013/04/09/engaged-doctors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 11:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Living with heart disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[compliance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doctor patient communication]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[patient engagement]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We're hearing a lot about how important it is to become an engaged patient these days. But as industry tries to cash in on the growing patient engagement movement, and as patients feel pressured to do more, be more and self-track more, we start to wonder if this "engagement" applies to the medical profession, too.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&#038;blog=7235999&#038;post=18361&#038;subd=czthomas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What if hospital staff could read our minds?</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2013/04/05/what-if-hospital-staff-could-read-our-minds/</link>
		<comments>http://myheartsisters.org/2013/04/05/what-if-hospital-staff-could-read-our-minds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 11:28:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cleveland Clinic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[empathy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Henry David Thoreau once asked: "Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?"  Then Cleveland Clinic created this compelling little film that imagines what it would be like if what patients are feeling inside were actually visible to those around us in the hospital.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&#038;blog=7235999&#038;post=18371&#038;subd=czthomas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When routine tasks trigger heart symptoms</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2013/04/01/heart-disease-symptoms-routine-tasks/</link>
		<comments>http://myheartsisters.org/2013/04/01/heart-disease-symptoms-routine-tasks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 11:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diagnosing - and misdiagnosing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cardiac catheterization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coronary microvascular disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Duke Activity Status Update]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hollywood Heart Attack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MVD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Non-Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After surviving a heart attack, it took several more months to figure out what was causing my ongoing distressing symptoms that were ultimately diagnosed as Inoperable Coronary Microvascular Disease (MVD) - a heart condition that affects our tiniest coronary arteries.  MVD can be tricky to diagnose because most standard cardiac diagnostic tests - the kind that work so well at  identifying big fat blockages in our larger coronary arteries - are not capable of catching it. Since symptoms of MVD often first appear during routine daily tasks, a questionnaire called the Duke Activity Status Index might be a useful tool because it offers information to our doctors  about how well blood is flowing through our coronary arteries.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&#038;blog=7235999&#038;post=18272&#038;subd=czthomas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What your cardiologist (should have) learned last month</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2013/03/28/what-your-cardiologist-should-have-learned-last-month/</link>
		<comments>http://myheartsisters.org/2013/03/28/what-your-cardiologist-should-have-learned-last-month/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 11:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cardiology 101]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Living with heart disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American College of Cardiology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beta blockers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cardiac drugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coumadin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[niacin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pharmaceuticals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tredaptive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TriCor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[warfarin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At the American College of Cardiology recent annual meeting in San Francisco, cardiologist Dr. Harlan Krumholz said:  "We are eager to add medicines and reluctant to take them away."<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&#038;blog=7235999&#038;post=18256&#038;subd=czthomas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stressed: who, me?</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2013/03/24/stressed-who-me/</link>
		<comments>http://myheartsisters.org/2013/03/24/stressed-who-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 11:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Heart disease and mental health issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stress management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Carolyn Thomas  ♥ @HeartSisters Are you feeling particularly stressed these days?  Chances are your answer to this question might be highly influenced by both your age and your gender (not to mention what the heck is also going on in your day-to-day life).  A national survey on how daily stress affects our personal health [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&#038;blog=7235999&#038;post=18139&#038;subd=czthomas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Just not listening &#8211; or &#8220;narrative incompetence&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2013/03/22/not-listening-narrative-incompetence/</link>
		<comments>http://myheartsisters.org/2013/03/22/not-listening-narrative-incompetence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Living with heart disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doctor patient communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Iona Heath]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Jack Coulehan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Jeff Clark]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Joshua Kosowsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Leana Wen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exam room etiquette]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[listening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[When Doctors Don't Listen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Jack Coulehan writes this about the patient story: "Patients understand their illnesses in a narrative way whether their physicians realize it or not. If this is so, and if physicians ignore or devalue narrative, then health care is bound to suffer. From the patients' perspective, narrative incompetence causes widespread dissatisfaction, distrust, and failed expectations." <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&#038;blog=7235999&#038;post=17939&#038;subd=czthomas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy springtime!</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2013/03/20/happy-springtime/</link>
		<comments>http://myheartsisters.org/2013/03/20/happy-springtime/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 11:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Heart Sisters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Is there any season better than springtime? <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&#038;blog=7235999&#038;post=18295&#038;subd=czthomas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Have you ever been in Cahoots?</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2013/03/16/in-cahoots/</link>
		<comments>http://myheartsisters.org/2013/03/16/in-cahoots/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 11:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humour]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have been in many places, but I&#8217;ve never been in Cahoots. Apparently, you can&#8217;t go alone. You have to be in Cahoots with someone. I&#8217;ve also never been in Cognito. I hear no one recognizes you there. I have, however, been in Sane. They don&#8217;t have an airport; you have to be driven there. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&#038;blog=7235999&#038;post=17883&#038;subd=czthomas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It lasts as long as it lasts</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2013/03/12/lessons-in-loss-susan-saint-james/</link>
		<comments>http://myheartsisters.org/2013/03/12/lessons-in-loss-susan-saint-james/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:23:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living with heart disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coping with heart disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[loss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mental health issues after heart attack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Susan Saint James]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Toni Bernhard]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Carolyn Thomas  ♥ @HeartSisters With deep calm, actor Susan Saint James said this after the tragic plane crash death of her youngest child, Teddy: &#8220;His was a life that lasted 14 years.&#8221; Hearing this, Toni Bernhard, author of the highly-recommended book, How To Be Sick: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill and Their [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&#038;blog=7235999&#038;post=17974&#038;subd=czthomas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is it the flu or the common cold?</title>
		<link>http://myheartsisters.org/2013/03/08/flu-or-cold/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 12:11:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living with heart disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Sheldon Sheps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[head cold]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heart disease and common cold]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heart disease and influenza]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pneumonia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While the cold virus itself isn't usually serious, cold complications such as pneumonia can make it hard to take in oxygen efficiently. This makes your heart work harder to pump oxygen-rich blood throughout your body. This extra demand on the heart can be quite serious when people with heart disease catch colds. Here's what to do - and what not to do - when you catch a cold.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myheartsisters.org&#038;blog=7235999&#038;post=18095&#038;subd=czthomas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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