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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
One Short Story
As I have mentioned before, I worked at an agricultural museum for ten years. We were a small operation – so small, almost every task had to be shared. I’ve set up exhibits, taken down exhibits, repaired exhibits, run the Admissions Desk,...
Trust, but Verify
Here’s a .pdf formatted article about how to read health news. A lot of information is out there; much more than when my parents were trying to learn all they could about their child’s defective heart. But with all this information, you a...
Heart Repair of the Future
Here are two articles you need to see – one is from August, about literally “building” a tooth from stem cells, and one from just a few days ago about The Stanford University School of Medicine and the Gladstone Institute of Cardiov...
We Missed It!
Golly darn gee whiz! We missed it! The Funky Heart missed out on all the festivities associated with World Heart Day, which was September 27, 2009! What was I doing on September 27th? Ha’ mercy, I can’t remember… were we supposed to...
Your Contributions Needed!
It’s time for another CHD Blog Carnival! For those of you who may not know what a blog carnival is, it is like a magazine: different articles are provided by various writers, but all of them focus on the same idea or subject. The name come from...
Road Rash
A 31 page .pdf report on the statistical relationship between motorcycle helmet laws and the availability of organs for donation. Here’s the short version: Q: What do you call a motorcycle rider who refuses to wear a helmet? A: A future organ d...
