by Shanthini R | May 25, 2024 | Amplifying Patient Voices, Blog, Health + Medicine, Lvad, News + Media, Photos + Videos
Living With Heart Disease Zoom Meeting On 19 June 2021 RSVP NOW In our next episode of Living with Heart Disease, we will be talking to fellow LVAD-enabled man Shawn Connors. Shawn is a widow/single father, computer nerd, gamer, Christian, sneakerhead, and foodie....
by Shanthini R | May 25, 2024 | Amplifying Patient Voices, Blog, Health + Medicine, Living With Heart Disease, News + Media, Photos + Videos
I have decided to share a few of my notes from last year, 2020. It feels like we are under a stress test; our resilience tested to its limit. At the same time, we need the habits and coping mechanisms we have developed over the years to navigate through the pandemic,...
by Shanthini R | May 25, 2024 | Blog
At the age of 28, as she had never drunk or smoked, it was a real shock to be diagnosed with PPCM, just four months after giving birth to her second son. She later discovered that this condition already existed on her father’s side of the family. During this painful...
by Shanthini R | May 25, 2024 | Amplifying Patient Voices, Blog, Health + Medicine, Lvad, News + Media, Photos + Videos
Please join us in our next Live Zoom Conversation with Aiste Staraite @aistestaraite. Sign-up here. Aiste hails from the Northern European country of Lithuania. Here’s a little bit more about her. In her own words, “… my mission is to help others. I also really enjoy...
by Shanthini R | May 25, 2024 | Amplifying Patient Voices, Amplifying Patient Voices, Blog, Health + Medicine, Living With Heart Disease, News + Media, Photos + Videos
At the age of 28, Tina Marie Marsden developed heart disease induced by pregnancy, a condition known as PPCM (Peripartum Cardiomyopathy). PPCM is a weakness of the heart muscle that, by definition, begins sometime during the final month of pregnancy through about five...
