2018 posts
JANUARY 2018
The Physician’s Pledge gets some bold new wording
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?
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…
DECEMBER 2018
Still too tired to put away the Halloween costume…
What to get the heart patient who has (almost) everything
Skin in the game: taking women’s cardiac misdiagnosis seriously
The Grinch’s Guide to Women’s Heart Attacks (with apologies to Dr. Seuss)
The 2018 Heart Sisters blog posts you liked best
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NOTE FROM CAROLYN: I wrote much more about these and other topics in my bookA Woman’s Guide to Living with Heart Disease Johns Hopkins University Press). You can ask for this book at your local library or favourite bookshop, or order it online (paperback, hardcover or e-book) at Amazon. If you order it directly from Johns Hopkins University Press (use their code HTWN), you can save 30% off the list price.
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