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• Put your Hammer Down

  
  Adventures of a Funky Heart! — Authority: 128
  “Are you going to take this on, Doctor?” – Dr. Helen Taussig (Mary Stuart Masterson) Something the Lord Made There’s something that you want to do that is… unusual. Don’t think that there isn’t; we all have that crazy idea every now and again. So what is it? If it’s moral, legal, ethical, and ...
  11 hours ago

• Fight Harder

  
  Adventures of a Funky Heart! — Authority: 128
  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 Heart Defects, you’ve got to put some major research money into the ...
  1 day ago

• What really happened

  
  Adventures of a Funky Heart! — Authority: 128
  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 another compliance form and faxed it to the Medical Records office. ...
  3 days ago

• Partners of the Heart

  
  Adventures of a Funky Heart! — Authority: 128
  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”) was the brainchild of one of the most unusual people in ...
  4 days ago

• Growing blood vessels

  
  Adventures of a Funky Heart! — Authority: 128
  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 limit blood vessel growth in cancer patients, at least temporarily: if ...
  1 week ago

• Which HLHS surgery works better?

  
  Adventures of a Funky Heart! — Authority: 128
  Update: My friend is out of surgery and doing well! The three operation Norwood Procedure was developed in the 1980’s as an answer to Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS) . Since infant heart transplant was developed at about the same time, HLHS was 100% fatal before the invention of the Norwood. But the ...
  1 week ago

• The Talk

  
  Adventures of a Funky Heart! — Authority: 128
  My friend (see the post “Won’t back down” ) has arrived at the Mayo Clinic and her surgery is scheduled for November 18. I’m sure she and her husband have had THE TALK. Anytime you face any type of surgery you need to have The Talk. This is supposed to be pretty routine, the proverbial Walk in the Park, but ...
  1 week ago

• Mechanical Man

  
  Adventures of a Funky Heart! — Authority: 128
  Frank had a problem . Frank had a stroke, and then the doctors diagnosed him with Dilated Cardiomyopathy . That is not a Good Thing to have, as the heart muscle has become enlarged and weakened. Frank was in heart failure, and at the moment, he was not long for this world. So doctors at the Texas Children’s ...
  1 week ago

• You need a buddy!

  
  Adventures of a Funky Heart! — Authority: 128
  Here’s a good post by The Happy Hospitalist about the mental checklist a doctor goes through whenever a patient is examined. In this case, however, the doctor misread an important sign and decided to send the child home.  Happy describes what happened next: Several hours later the child was complaining of a ...
  1 week ago

• One Short Story

  
  Adventures of a Funky Heart! — Authority: 128
  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, worked in the Museum Store, led all of our educational programs, given ...
  2 weeks ago

• Heart Repair of the Future

  
  Adventures of a Funky Heart! — Authority: 128
  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 Cardiovascular Disease working together to use stem cells to repair damaged heart ...
  2 weeks ago

• The official congress of the European Association of Echocardiography (EAE) is in Madrid

  
  SALUTE DOMANI ? IL PORTALE DEL BENESSERE — Authority: 151
  EUROECHO 2009 is the official congress of the  European Association of Echocardiography (EAE) , a registered branch of the European Society of Cardiology, where techniques of non-invasive diagnostic imaging will be presented from 9 – 12 December in Madrid . New case reports will be presented at ...
  2 weeks ago

• We Missed It!

  
  Adventures of a Funky Heart! — Authority: 128
  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 exchange gifts? What’s that? Sorry folks, I hate to get you all excited, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Your Contributions Needed!

  
  Adventures of a Funky Heart! — Authority: 128
  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 the very first collection of like minded blogger links: it was hosted by ...
  2 weeks ago

• Old Friends

  
  Adventures of a Funky Heart! — Authority: 128
  Old friend, here we are; after all the years and tears and all that we’ve been through… Bette Midler, Every Road Leads Back to You Every person in this video is an adult living with a Congenital Heart Defect.
  3 weeks ago

• Mark and the Cardiac Kids!

  
  Adventures of a Funky Heart! — Authority: 128
  “How long has it been since you posted those cool videos?” a friend asked me. “You ought to post them again. When you showed them the first time there were about five people reading Funky Heart . You’ve got lots of new readers since then.” She could be right… I can’t recall when I posted them. And ...
  3 weeks ago

• CHD Developers launches Lifestyle GRAND at CHD City in Karnal

  
  India Real Estate Tracker — Authority: 140
  New Delhi, November 2, 2009 – Sequel to the successful Launch of CHD Lifestyle -Stylish, Comfortable & Affordable independent floors which were sold out within just 6 weeks of its launch, CHD Developers Ltd, a leading real estate developer launched Lifestyle Grand, Comprising of 120 of Modern, Spacious & ...
  3 weeks ago

• RBS, ICE, RL, MPG, ANR, CHD, ENR, SFNC Popular Stocks

  
  Ub News — Authority: 522
  U.S. stocks traded lower Tuesday as the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.54% to 9736, the S&P 500 declined 0.08% to 1042 and the Nasdaq Composite decreased 0.09% to 2047.Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC (NYSE:RBS, $11.95, -$0.70, -5.53%) said it will spin off its insurance arm and sell RBS branches in England ...
  3 weeks ago

• AVOID this Vegetable Garden!

  
  Adventures of a Funky Heart! — Authority: 128
  I’ve written before how CHDers need to avoid Endocarditis if at all possible. Endocarditis is caused by a bacterial infection in the bloodstream, and it happens a lot more often than you think it does. If you are healthy, your immune systems can usually smother the infection pretty quickly and you may not even feel ...
  3 weeks ago

• UPDATE

  
  Adventures of a Funky Heart! — Authority: 128
  Chloe got her chest tubes out and is progressing very nicely; there is a rumor running around that she might get to come home tomorrow! There are also photos of her walking down the hall, using her breathing tube, and cuddled in a purple blanket, so head over to her website . Be sure to leave her a message wishing ...
  4 weeks ago

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