posts here focus on a variety of topics all about the heart and how it works
by Carolyn Thomas ♥ @HeartSisters
Sara Wyen is a writer and founder of Blood Clot Recovery Network, a site that helps patients through the recovery process from deep vein thrombosis* or pulmonary embolism*. Her own story about a freakishly heavy period while taking her anticoagulant medication is a good one to share with any women you know who are prescribed these drugs. . . Continue reading “Heavy menstrual cycles and those anticoagulant drugs you’re taking”
by Carolyn Thomas ♥ @HeartSisters
When Zayna’s infant daughter Sarah was just five months old, the baby underwent open heart surgery to correct a congenital heart defect she’d been born with. “The surgery truly saved her life!” says Zayna. “She went from being tube-fed to becoming a bouncing ball of energy.”
But a few years later, Sarah had an experience with her little friends – one that resulted in a new book for kids who are just like her. . . Continue reading “A children’s book about living with an open heart surgery scar”
by Carolyn Thomas ♥ @HeartSisters
I was surprised to learn after surviving my own heart attack that cardiac events like mine may take 20-30 years to actually show up. In other words, I didn’t have a heart attack because I ate a piece of bacon or had a stressful day at work. I had a heart attack because something – likely decades earlier – had damaged the delicate endothelial cells lining my coronary arteries. . . . . Continue reading “Heart disease: decades in the making”
by Carolyn Thomas ♥ @HeartSisters
You know it’s Heart Month when scary facts about the dangers of heart disease start flooding our screens. But that kind of Heart Month messaging is so pre-COVID – and before we learned the shocking results of the American Heart Association’s national survey. This survey found that women’s awareness of heart disease has actually declined over the past decade – NOT improved at all! despite all the inspiring Red Dress-awareness-raising-Go-Red-for-Women campaign efforts out there.
So instead of repeating more scary statistics as if I hadn’t read that survey’s results, I’m once again simply offering some weird stuff I’ve learned over the years about women and heart disease: . . Continue reading “The weirdest stuff I’ve learned about women’s heart disease”
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