[cycloneslider id=”wear-red-day”] I have the best family and friends in the world. Wow. I’m so humbled by, and grateful for, all you do for me. (Click on the image to see the slideshow. You all look amazing!) Love, Jen
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Feb 2013
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Jan 2013
Yesterday was one of those roller coasters: punch-to-the-gut emotional lows followed by relief, support, and happy-tears highs. Seriousness of purpose, silliness in feathers. Ladies who lunch. Women on a mission. The Go Red for Women Luncheon. I had a job to do at this luncheon. I was the survivor story. There was a video about […]
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Jan 2013
A few weeks ago Scott and I were interviewed for a Go Red for Women video, to be used at a fundraising event later this month. Here’s the trailer. (I’m not in it; this is to maintain the mystery, I’m told.) I won’t see the full video until I’m sitting right in the audience with […]
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Dec 2012
I love end-of-the-year “top” lists. About anything, really. It is so interesting to look back on a year and remember what was important in January, what we thought would happen in June, and by December, taking stock of a whole year and looking forward to the next. 2012 was a tough year, personally, nationally, globally. […]
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Dec 2012
I hope you have a blessed holiday with the ones you love most. Thank you for being part of my life this year. Jen
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Nov 2012
Tonight was my first official appearance as the Go Red for Women spokeswoman for 2013 — a kickoff event for Minnesota’s 10th year of Go Red. The event was fun, and my remarks went well, but I was surprised at how nervous I was. I should not have been — every face I could see […]
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Nov 2012
Last year after I finished cardiac rehab, I joined the hospital-affiliated gym and signed myself up for personal training. I knew from rehab that the accountability that having a training appointment scheduled would provide was crucial. I worked with Stephanie and Laurie for six months, then just Stephanie over the summer. I loved going to […]
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Oct 2012
Picture Day
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Today was a pretty big day around here. The long-scheduled day when the American Heart Association communications team would interview me (and my husband) for a Go Red for Women video in our own living room. Our boys were filmed with us, doing regular family things like playing outside, eating a snack, and playing a game. […]
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Oct 2012
So this happened too. Three weeks after my brother’s heart attack and 13 months after my own, I was back in the OR, prepped for another angioplasty, getting another stent. Because heart disease is not a dramatic, one-time, life-altering, something-that-happened-to-me-once-isn’t-that-interesting thing. It is a lifelong, chronic illness that will strike whenever it damn well pleases. […]
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Oct 2012
On August, 27, one year and two weeks after my heart attack, my younger brother Mike had one too. He is 32. While we all knew we inherited this risk, none of us really believed it would happen. Better to just consider my heart attack some kind of freakish, one-time event; that just made more […]
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