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Adventures of a Funky Heart!
http://tricuspid.wordpress.com
Written by a 42 year old Congenital Heart Defect Survivor, Adventures of a Funky Heart! offers advice on how to overcome a chronic illness and reports on some of the latest advances in Congenital Heart Defect medicine and issues.
- Added on: Jan 5th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
Recent Posts
Fight Harder
The CHD Blog Carnival planned for November 30 has been canceled – there were only three submissions. And I sent at least 15 personal e-mails to various CHDers and/or their parents, inviting them to participate. If you want to beat Congenital ...
What really happened
Back in August I blogged about faxing a HIPPA compliance form to Johns Hopkins Hospital to get some medical records from my 1967 heart surgery. I already had the records, actually, but I had managed to misplace several of them. So I filled out anothe...
Partners of the Heart
In honor of Red and Blue Day, what follows is a reprint of an article I wrote for the November 2009 issue of The Right Heart Times, the newsletter of the CHD support group Hypoplastic Right Hearts: The Blalock-Taussig Shunt (Shunt means “detour”)...
Elementary!
My Primary Care Physician retired a while back, and I’ve been examined by the doctor who replaced him, a Dr. Holmes. Dr. Holmes seems to be a nice enough person, and fairly familiar with Congenital Heart Defects. The nurse that worked with the ...
Trust me, this won’t hurt a bit!
Here’s an excellent article from Harvard Health Publications about do it yourself heart surgery! No medical school education needed and no experience required! Try it! It’s fun! ...
Growing blood vessels
Here’s a medical discovery made by cancer researchers that can benefit Funky Hearts, too. Researchers at Uppsala University in Sweden have recently discovered a protein that controls the growth of new blood vessels. These researchers want to li...
