I have been a pretty active mama since my second son was born in August 2007. Staring down a bridesmaid’s dress and a Hawaii destination wedding within five months of his birthday, I had ample motivation to get going. I started walking, then running, and the baby fat melted off. The next spring I ran […]
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Feb 2012
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Feb 2012
It’s hard, if not impossible, to know what it is like for those around you, those who love you, when your own life is in crisis. I will never know what my husband felt like the day that I went to the ER but he drove our son to camp. I asked him if he […]
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Feb 2012
My sons’ school participates in Jump Rope for Heart every year. The children learn about heart health, jump rope for as long as they can (in our school it is a gym class unit), and raise money for the American Heart Association. This year, Jump Rope for Heart is a big deal to my 10-year-old, […]
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Feb 2012
I’m very excited about my “very first” National Wear Red Day on Friday, February 3 – first post heart attack, that is. It’s a simple way to show women that raising awareness about women’s risk is important. But, having left my job last year to stay at home with my boys, I’m without a natural […]
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Nov 2011
Why Wait?
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“I think there’s something wrong with me. In case I don’t get back in time, you’d better stay here and take Owen to camp.” I said something like this to my husband around 8:30 a.m. on a Sunday morning, after I’d spent the whole night awake, whimpering in pain and popping Advil four at a […]
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Nov 2011
I got the results of my first post-heart attack stress test today, and the news is good. Very good. My total cholesterol went from 230 to . . . (drumroll) . . . 106! My LDL (bad) cholesterol went from 180 to . . . 58!! My HDL (good) cholesterol also dropped a little, from […]
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Nov 2011
This is the best news I’ve heard in a long time. And by long time, I mean since August 14, the day of my heart attack. It turns out that your body will, if you treat it properly, mount its own defense against heart disease and future heart attacks. It grows extra, natural bypass vessels […]
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Oct 2011
At the risk of completely embarrassing myself, I’m sharing this video/commercial. You might recognize the representative heart attack survivor. Seeing and hearing yourself on camera is never a girl’s favorite thing, but the Allina staff did a nice job with the messages on this prevention-oriented video. I’m very glad I got to say things about […]
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Oct 2011
I can’t begin to imagine what it is like to be a person close to me. I don’t know what it’s like to watch someone you love or care about have a heart attack, and I hope I never do. There’s something about being the person who’s in crisis, the subject of the drama, that […]
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Oct 2011
Superfoods
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While writing this I ate three pieces of cherry Laffy Taffy from the Halloween basket (and if the basket wasn’t downstairs, it would have been more) so I’m not exactly a nutritional saint, even now. But, in the last few days I have made some very tasty, very righteous recipes featuring the nutritional powerhouses walnuts, […]
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