Category: Mended Hearts Blog
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Understanding Heart Valve Disease: Brandon’s Story
Valve Disease Awareness Day is February 22 and Mended Hearts is a proud partner of this annual event! This year we are sharing a series of four unique stories about valve disease to highlight the fact that valve disease affects millions of people, in a variety of ways. Ronda Adamo is the Lead Coordinator of…
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Understanding Heart Valve Disease: Victor’s Story
Valve Disease Awareness Day is February 22 and Mended Hearts is a proud partner of this annual event! This year we are sharing a series of four unique stories about valve disease to highlight the fact that valve disease affects millions of people, in a variety of ways. Victor Elizalde is User Experience Designer (UX…
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Understanding Heart Valve Disease: Jenn’s Story
Valve Disease Awareness Day is February 22 and Mended Hearts is a proud partner of this annual event! This year we are sharing a series of four unique stories about valve disease to highlight the fact that valve disease affects millions of people, in a variety of ways. Jennifer is a licensed mental health counselor,…
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![Your Dreams Can Happen: Believe It! [Strength and Spirit Series]](https://stage.mendedhearts.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/marc-olivier-jodoin-TStNU7H4UEE-unsplash-125x125.jpg)
Your Dreams Can Happen: Believe It! [Strength and Spirit Series]
By Yacxara, as part of our Strength and Spirit Series We heart kids and adults may be born with certain challenges, but we really arent that different than anyone else. We all want to grow up and go to school, go to college, get married and have kids. We dont always know if…
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Bonus Days
David is a Vice President of a International Manufacturing company and began writing just a few years ago ( At age 50, It’s therapeutic for him & was part of his bucket list) He’s been married to his wife Angela (for 28 years). They live near Dayton OH and have one daughter Marissa (a school…
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Supporting Patients with Aortic Disease
An Exciting Collaboration to Support Patients with Aortic Disease Mended Hearts and Aortic Hope are proud to announce an exciting collaboration in 2020 to increase and enhance support for patients with diseases of the aorta and for their caregivers and families. Through this collaboration, Mended Hearts and Aortic Hope will provide hope and support to…
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![My Survival Battle Helped Me Find My Purpose [Strength and Spirit Series]](https://stage.mendedhearts.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/amy-shamblen-qdPnQuGeuwU-unsplash-125x125.jpg)
My Survival Battle Helped Me Find My Purpose [Strength and Spirit Series]
By Morgan Mengle, as part of our Strength and Spirit Series My name is Morgan; Im from Pennsylvania and am now 21 years old. I was born with Tetralogy of Fallot. I was born at 33 weeks, tipping the scales at only 3 lbs., 9 ounces. So far, I have had four open heart surgeries,…
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Reducing the Burden of Heart Failure
Mended Hearts has joined other partners across the industry to establish a Heart Failure Charter. Mended Hearts is proud to have collaborated on the Heart Failure Charter. This charter is designed to give us all a road map in reducing the burden of heart failure. Collaborating organizations from patient organizations, to professional societies and research…
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Confusion About Preventative Use of Aspirin Could Have Potentially Harmful Consequences for Heart Attack Survivors
Aspirin has been in the news a lot lately, and it has been very confusing for some patients. Updated guidelines that were released earlier this year state that aspirin should not be used in routine primary prevention for heart attacks due to lack of net benefit. This caught the attention of the media, yet news…
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Like Mother, Like Daughter
By Amy Suson Youll likely never have children. I had heard those words repeatedly growing up. Being born with severe tricuspid valve stenosis, transposition of the great arteries, hypoplastic right ventricle, VSD, and left ventricular systolic dysfunction, I really was not too surprised. I knew I was blessed enough to have had only two heart…