I like this phrase from this public service announcement: “Don’t make excuses, make the call.” My symptoms were pain in back, shoulders, and arms, and fatigue. I made lots of excuses for my symptoms. You shouldn’t. Please take 60 seconds to watch, and then pass it on.
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Jan 2012
No Excuses
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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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Nov 2011
Start Today
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Did you know today is National Start Eating Healthy Day? I didn’t either, but thankfully not too much of the day has passed and I didn’t eat unhealthy yet. Phew. But seriously, in honor of today – a campaign of the American Heart Association – here are some eating healthy resources I like. “25 Ridiculously […]
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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
Amazing Race
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This weekend was Twin Cities Marathon weekend – the race I was training for this summer and was planning to run with my brother, Mike. Life, as we know, intervened. So a few weeks ago I asked my rehab physiologist (aka boss-of-me) if she thought I could run the TC5K instead. I got permission from her, […]
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Sep 2011
I hope everyone has seen this funny and really, far too realistic video, produced by Go Red for Women, the American Heart Association’s women’s heart health campaign. The day of my heart attack started as a totally normal day, and I expected normalcy to resume at any moment (hmm, still waiting). I called Scott from the ER […]
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Sep 2011
My 12th Pill
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I now take 12 pills a day. Me, the self-righteous riot grrl who demanded to see the results of studies of this drug or that drug on women and then refused to take them when the doctor admitted there was no such thing. Me, the nervous first-time mother who wouldn’t even take fish oil supplements while […]
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