Living

The Connected Health Survey is now closed. Thank you for your interest! In the digital age, there are so many devices, websites, and technologies related to health. From fitness trackers...

Have you ever wondered about the need for home oxygen therapy and if you qualify for it? Is it something that could help you, as a person with heart failure?...

Access to medicine is important. Drug regimens are part of treating many health conditions, and delays in taking drugs can have serious effects on health and well-being. Many people get...

Fatigue is one of the most difficult symptoms to become used to and can be even more difficult to manage. Many of the medications heart failure patients are placed on...

An implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) is a device you will probably need to decide if you want during your heart failure adventure. There are multiple types of an ICD, and the...

Editor's note: This is part 2 of a two-part series. Part 1 is titled 'Panic, Revisited (Part 1)'. About a week after I first visited Sutter Sacramento hospital in mid-2016...

One of the best volunteer programs I’ve seen and experienced myself was at Columbia Children’s Hospital. The caregivers were invited once a week to a beauty treatment. The program was...

My good health in 2013 stretched into 2014, by the end of which I had gotten engaged to Desirée, become a father, and completed my master’s degree. Feeling strong in...

The inspiration for this article came from watching a rerun of Sex and the City, the episode where Carrie is struggling for content, so she started writing about socks, comparing...

I would love to say that heart failure has not impacted my ability to parent. I have stage four advanced heart failure and an implantable LVAD to sustain life. For obvious reasons...

When your doctor prescribes you a new medicine, it can sometimes seem like they are either guessing or just doing a trial and error method to see what works for...

Karen, a caregiver of 25 years, offers three helpful tips to stay on track with your medications...

Editor's note: This is part 1 of a two-part series. Part 2 can be found here. We asked three of our advocates, Will, Christopher, and Daniel, "How has living with...

One of the more frustrating things that comes with heart failure is PVCs (Premature Ventricular Contractions). They are little reminders that you have a heart condition. They seem to come...

My medical care team, of course, is the best in the world! At the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Heart & Vascular Center, my cardiologist, Dr. Garrick Stewart always tells me...

I came home after a heart attack and heart failure diagnosis at the age of 42 — zero pills a day to over ten overnight. I was terrified to go...

Editor's note: Part 1 of this series, Even a Giant Needs Shoulders to Stand On, can be found here. I am very lucky to have great friends and, more importantly...

Most people are unaware that heart disease and strokes are the number one killer in women, causing 1 in 3 women’s deaths annually. If you break that down a little...

Have you ever watched a youngster learn to ride a bike on their own after using training wheels? Perhaps you have been the teacher in such a situation. Perhaps you...

When you are growing up with an illness there are many parts of a “normal childhood” you have to grieve. When it comes to grieving these losses, my amazing team...