Dear Carolyn: “After 19 months of daily discomfort, my pacemaker was replaced”
“I had to decide if I could live with the discomfort I felt every day, or if I should go ahead with another pacemaker surgery.”
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Dear Carolyn: “I take issue with the heart attack terms STEMI and NSTEMI”
Some physicians are urging new names for heart attacks: instead of STEMI and NSTEMI, they prefer OMI and NOMI. Here’s why. . .
Dear Carolyn: “I couldn’t tell if my pain was ‘normal’.”
She told her husband that the pain was “brutal”, but to her doctor, she just said it was “not fun.” Why do we minimize our pain symptoms?
Dear Carolyn: “I went into labour during my heart attack”
Nicole Nickerson’s amazing cardiac survival story: “On the anniversary of my sister’s fatal heart attack, my husband had to tell my parents in person the events that had just unfolded for me…”
Dear Carolyn: “Adapting to adaptations?”
Most of us have spent decades perfecting what are called the Activities of Daily Living, or ADLs. But after a serious diagnosis or frightening symptoms, things often have to change.
Heart Sisters 