Christmas 2018 - 2023...On December 23rd, 2018, I woke up and felt bad. I was having trouble breathing, my stomach was bloated, and I was...reactions1comment
What Are Types of Heart Failure?...Heart failure (HF) is when the heart no longer functions properly. It leads to symptoms of chest discomfort, shortness of breath, and...
Becoming Bionic - Getting an ICD...The day after my heart attack, the attending cardiologist told me that my heart would recover, it would bounce back to a...reactions1comment
Community Views: Frustrating Myths About Heart Failure...As someone with heart failure, you may have heard a few myths about your condition. People may believe in myths because they...reactionscomments
Things I Wish I Knew...I started my heart journey at 25 years old and there is so much that I wish I was aware of in...reactionscomments
Heart of a Giant Support System, Part 3: My Medical Care Team...My medical care team, of course, is the best in the world! At the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Heart & Vascular Center...reactions2comments
Living With Heart Failure...If you have recently been diagnosed with heart failure (HF), you are not alone. HF affects approximately 6.5 million people in the...
Living in Survival Mode...I was diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy in 2014 at the age of 25. At that point in my life, I had finished...reactions1comment
Having A Good Support System...When you get diagnosed with an illness, like heart failure, it is always imperative that you have a support system. Having a...reactions2comments
One in a Million...I was born with a bicuspid aortic valve. At the age of 51, I had surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los...reactions1comment
Eating the Rainbow - For My Heart...Trying to keep my heart health in check, knowing that heart failure runs in my family, has been a rude awakening to...reactions4comments
The Gliflozins: A Newer Class of Drugs to Treat Heart Failure...There are many emerging therapies for the treatment of heart failure. One of these newer therapies are the SGLT2 inhibitors, which have...reactions6comments
What Does Worrying Do?...The one mantra that I have found that helps manage the anxiety and unknowns that come with congestive heart failure (CHF) is...reactionscomments
Valuable Lessons About Living...Heart failure, and those who suffer from it, have taught me so much over the years. We have heart failure in our...reactionscomments
Confounded Clara...After a heart catherization in 2020, I was diagnosed with congestive heart failure (CHF). The BNP was 289 and the ejection fraction...reactions3comments
Early Childhood Experiences with Heart Failure...Like any child who grew up in the 1970s, staying out until the street lights turn on, riding tricycles or bicycles, taking...reactionscomments
Suggestions for Dating with an LVAD - Caretakers POV...No one likes to have to give a disclaimer in the first conversation or the first date. My mother did not struggle...reactionscomments
Lobbying at Our Nation's Capitol...In 2019, I applied to be one of the advocates in Maryland to go to the District of Columbia to advocate with...reactionscomments
Coping with All of the Rules...As a heart failure patient this is a article I should have written awhile ago because it is as true now as...reactionscomments
Life-changing Heart Attack...Year ago I had what they call the widowmaker heart attack. I was in the best shape of my life at 60...reactions2comments
