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Tag: Heart Health

  • This Aging Body

    I am damn near 60. I hear myself saying these words in my head pretty regularly, especially when I see girls in cute outfits at school and wonder if I could wear them! I am damn near 60. I will be 59 in January, and just cannot believe that I am close to retirement age.…

  • (not) Outrunning Heart Disease

    It has been over a month since I wrote, and not that everyone (or anyone) is following my health concerns, but I do want to continue to write our family’s story with the hope that it might help someone else. I’ll begin with my sister, Bobbi, who is 68 (eleven years older than I). I…

  • Outrunning Family History, Part 3…A Little Update

    I feel like I have spent my summer dealing with health issues, but I have to step back and remember that I also completed my certification in Interior Design, finished my continuing education for real estate, took a fantastic trip with my husband, and had fun with family and friends. Teachers return to school in…

  • Outrunning Family History, Part 2

    Thursday morning I had my much-dreaded stress test. I don’t like when I don’t really know what to expect, so I was quite anxious as Gary and I made our way to Deaconess Heart Hospital. Let’s preface the story with a video featuring my favorite comedian, Leanne Morgan: All sense of modesty was definitely out…

  • Outrunning Family History

    It turns out, I can’t outrun family history. Fifty years ago today, June 7, 1974, my father dropped dead of a heart attack at the age of 42. I was seven years old; my sister had graduated high school the night before; and my brother had just completed eighth grade. On that day, we were…