Best holiday gift ideas for heart patients

gingerbread-man-3000526_1280 copyby Carolyn Thomas   ♥  Heart Sisters on Blue Sky

Just 24 more days to go before Santa slides down our chimneys!  If you need some inspiration for a special heart patient on your gift list – for Christmas or any other occasion – this is for you. Personally, I’m not hoping for any more “stuff” this season (except maybe a new electric heating pad from Santa, hint, hint).  So I decided to turn to my always generous-of-spirit heart sisters to ask other women living with heart disease:  “What’s on your own Christmas wish list this year?”  Here are some of their creative responses (please add your own wish list favourite in the Comments section at the end!) – and thanks to all of you who offered these great ideas:
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What to get for the heart patient who has (almost) everything

by Carolyn Thomas  ♥  @HeartSisters  

You could do last-minute Christmas shopping for another scented candle or pottery vase (that just might end up some day on somebody’s yard sale table together). But if you have a woman in your life who has been diagnosed with heart disease, you could choose a truly useful gift this year. Here’s why, in my admittedly biased view, that gift could be my book, A Woman’s Guide to Living with Heart Disease. And Santa can even save 30% off the cover price when ordering from my publisher, Johns Hopkins University Press!) * Continue reading “What to get for the heart patient who has (almost) everything”