2018 posts
JANUARY 2018
- Hair loss and heart meds
- The Physician’s Pledge gets some bold new wording
- But what about the men?
- Hello pacers! A little Q&A about your pacemaker
FEBRUARY 2018 – It’s HEART MONTH! ♥
- Same heart attack, same misdiagnosis – but one big difference
- Can’t wait to start reading my book? Here’s Chapter 1
- Let’s pretend that atypical heart attack symptoms don’t exist
- Good news: your story is not yet locked in
MARCH 2018
- “Best narrative I have ever encountered on this topic”
- Let’s pretend that atypical heart attack symptoms don’t exist
- “Doing Harm”: Enter to win Maya Dusenbery’s new book
- Can early warning symptoms predict a heart attack?
- Just shut up and listen!
APRIL 2018
- Open wide! Cardiac symptoms diagnosed in the dental chair
- What I wish I’d known before my hospital discharge
- “Tin Heart”: poems for a heart transplant
- Post-hospital syndrome, revisited
- A letter from your heart disease
MAY 2018
- Dear Carolyn: “I’m having the time of my life!”
- A Mother’s Day without my mother
- Deep thoughts about death and heart disease
- Typical vs. “atypical” heart attack signs in women
JUNE 2018
- Do you need a robot to help with your hospital gown?
- “Dear Carolyn: I was never one to complain. . . “
- When you’re about to become a hospital patient
- Dr. Martha Gulati’s fabulous foreword to my book
JULY 2018
- Did you hear this? Oatmeal is now your enemy
- Dear Carolyn: “Did I have a ‘real’ heart attack?”
- Six ways NOT to motivate patients to change
- When patients feel like hostages
- “I am lying in a surprisingly bright glass-walled room…” (excerpt from Chapter 4 of my book)
- “The Atypical Heart”: how YOU can help create this documentary
AUGUST 2018
- Dear Carolyn: “Breaking up is hard to do”
- The 2018 Summer Blogging Challenge
- First the big change, then the big transition
- The medical apology: have you ever received one?
SEPTEMBER 2018
- When an illness narrative isn’t just about illness
- Hypervigilance: waiting for that second heart attack
- Our cardiac meds – in real life, not just in studies
- The bumpy road between diagnosis and getting better
OCTOBER 2018
- Is ‘being nice’ hurting women?
- Oh, great. Another cardiac risk factor to worry about…
- Little video, big questions on women’s heart disease
- Appropriately confident: what are YOU really good at?
- Dear Carolyn: “People can change for the better”
NOVEMBER 2018
- “To just be a person, and not a patient anymore”
- How a $5 Tim Hortons gift card changed my life
- My book is one year old! Some excerpts to tease you…
- Dr. Google in the E.R
DECEMBER 2018
- Still too tired to put away the Halloween costume…
- What to get the heart patient who has (almost) everything
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See the archives of all previous posts from 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017.
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NOTE FROM CAROLYN: I wrote more about these and many more important topics in women’s heart health in my book, “A Woman’s Guide to Living with Heart Disease” (Johns Hopkins University, November 2017).
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