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• The Reverend

  
  Adventures of a Funky Heart! — Authority: 467
  We met him in 1977, while in the hospital at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). “I’m not sure we’ve met,” he said to my dad. “I’m Reverend E.W. Harris, a couple of my members are patients here. And you are….?” “We’re the Funky Heart family, our son Steve is here for a heart ...
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• Special People, Special Moments

  
  Adventures of a Funky Heart! — Authority: 467
  Check out the newest edition of Patients for a Moment , the blog carnival by and about the folks who aren’t carrying a stethoscope! As soon as Christmas is over, I’ll turn my full attention to preparing for the Regional Congenital Heart Defect (CHD) Forum sponsored by Broken Hearts of the Big Bend .  The ...
  1 day ago

• INTERVIEW TOMORROW!

  
  Adventures of a Funky Heart! — Authority: 467
  First, a huge THANK YOU to my Nurse Practitioner, Teresa Lyle, who sent me an autographed copy of her new book, Balancing your life with Congenital Heart Disease . It’s not very long but it is a great resource and guide – my father commented “I wish there had been something like this when you were ...
  3 days ago

• SurgeXperiences 312

  
  Adventures of a Funky Heart! — Authority: 467
  We open this edition of SurgeXperiences with an explanation and an apology: Apparently the software behind Blogcarnival.Com – the company that gathers submissions and forwards them to the carnival host – had a hiccup and vaporized all of the SurgeXperiences submissions. So most of the posts that appear in ...
  5 days ago

• A Cure for the Funky Heart?!?!

  
  Adventures of a Funky Heart! — Authority: 467
  I’ve got Google Alerts searching for the appearance of certain Heart Defect words and phrases across the internet, and they deliver new information to my computer every night. The information is new to me , but not always new. So imagine my surprise when I read this report from a 1981 edition of the ...
  1 week ago

• A helpful book!

  
  Adventures of a Funky Heart! — Authority: 467
  Every now and again I will mention this book, because I think it is so useful and important. I own a copy, but I am not affiliated with the publisher. I’m not earning anything if you choose to purchase this book. A book that I highly recommend for any heart family is The Illustrated Field Guide to Congenital ...
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• New glue makes surgical recovery easier!

  
  Adventures of a Funky Heart! — Authority: 467
  On of the hardest parts of recovery from heart surgery is the time it take for the sternum (breastbone) to heal. A sneeze feels like a hammer blow to the chest, and even the littlest things are painful – you just don’t believe how many activities involve your chest muscles and breastbone in some way. I always ...
  1 week ago

• Computer Assisted Fontan Surgery

  
  Adventures of a Funky Heart! — Authority: 467
  I just don’t “get” the Fontan . At all. I was recently asked by a CHD organization to write an article about the Fontan Procedure for their newsletter. I had to turn them down; I had to say that no matter how many diagrams I studied, and how many textbooks I have read, I just don’t see how that operation ...
  2 weeks ago

• Another look at Pulse Oximetery

  
  Adventures of a Funky Heart! — Authority: 467
  There is a growing movement in the Congenital Heart Defect (CHD) family pushing for the inclusion of testing newborns with a Pulse Oximeter before being released from the hospital. Such a test would provide a fast, inexpensive way to determine if a CHD is present; if the situation warrants, further tests can be ...
  2 weeks ago

• Put your Hammer Down

  
  Adventures of a Funky Heart! — Authority: 467
  “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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Growing blood vessels

  
  Adventures of a Funky Heart! — Authority: 467
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

• Which HLHS surgery works better?

  
  Adventures of a Funky Heart! — Authority: 467
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

• Mechanical Man

  
  Adventures of a Funky Heart! — Authority: 467
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

• You need a buddy!

  
  Adventures of a Funky Heart! — Authority: 467
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

• Study finds mixed results comparing two surgical strategies for infant heart defect

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 639
  Infants born with a severely underdeveloped heart are more likely to survive to their first birthday when treated with a new shunt procedure -- yet it may not be the safest surgery long term, according to research presented at the American Heart Associations Scientific Sessions 2009. Babies born with a critically ...
  4 weeks ago

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