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2022 posts
JANUARY 2022
Goodbye, hospital. Hello, home! And other scary things.
When heart disease isn’t your biggest problem
Dear Carolyn: “After 19 months of daily discomfort, my pacemaker was replaced”
#JOMO: it turns out there’s a name for my life
Bucket Lists: do heart patients need them?
FEBRUARY 2022 ♥ It’s HEART MONTH!
More weird facts about women and heart disease
Where do those post-stent bruises come from?
10 years after my mother’s death
Heart Month awareness: doing the same thing, yet expecting different results
MARCH 2022
Writing about hearts – and now roses
AUGUST 2022
Balcony roses: my late summer review
SEPTEMBER 2022
How I spent my summer vacation
Must women bring a man along to help doctors believe us?
OCTOBER 2022
When male and female heart patients play the same game, but with different rules
When the person in trouble is your paramedic
Chronic heart failure: the true heartache of living with “FAILURE”
I’m still alive, post-influenza. I think. . .
NOVEMBER 2022
Family history of unusually early heart attack? You may carry this gene
Why heart patients generally don’t say: “Doc, tell me what to do and I’ll do it!”
Diagnostic Uncertainty vs. Unwarranted Certainty: which is worse for patients?
DECEMBER 2022
Modern medicine is male-centric medicine, and that’s a problem for women.
What to get for the heart patient who has (almost) everything
When doctors won’t say “I don’t know”
Top 5 most popular Heart Sisters posts from 2022
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