by Carolyn Thomas ♥ @HeartSisters
Five months after my heart attack, I attended the 2008 WomenHeart Science & Leadership patient advocacy training at Mayo Clinic – the first Canadian heart patient ever accepted. I learned so much from my 44 American heart sisters – ages 31 to 71 – who also attended that year, and of course from our rock-star faculty of female cardiologists from Mayo and beyond, brilliantly led by the one and only founder of the Mayo Women’s Heart Clinic, Dr. Sharonne Hayes.♥ When I returned home and started writing and speaking about what I’d just learned at Mayo, my public relations friends teased me: “This is what happens when a PR person survives a heart attack: you just keep writing, speaking and looking stuff up – because that’s all you know how to do!” And they were so right! Here’s my annual overview of what I’ve been learning while writing some of the most-read posts this past year: . Continue reading “What I learned from writing my most-read ‘Heart Sisters’ articles in 2023”
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So I looked up “landmarks lit up with purple”. I learned that lighting a landmark in purple raises awareness of pancreatic cancer – but that’s not all. It’s also the colour that’s supposed to raise awareness of Alzheimer’s Disease, epilepsy, ADHD, domestic violence, lupus, testicular cancer, Crohn’s Disease – and probably many other such causes.
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