by Shanthini R | May 25, 2024 | Amplifying Patient Voices, Amplifying Patient Voices, Blog, Health + Medicine, Living With Heart Disease, Updates, Writing+Memoirs
Hi Friend, I recently shared a lesson I have learned along the way, and I hope to pass it on to others. It is about boundaries in the particular context of living with heart disease and parenting. I wrote it for Heart.Failure.Net; I know you will enjoy this one. Let...
by Shanthini R | May 25, 2024 | Amplifying Patient Voices, Amplifying Patient Voices, Blog, Health + Medicine, Living With Heart Disease, Updates, Writing+Memoirs
Life Is To Be Lived And Enjoyed To The Fullest “If you don’t celebrate, then what’s the point of living?” Growing up, … I lived in a family that was big on celebrations. Regardless of the occasion, we would have a party to celebrate it—we...
by Shanthini R | May 25, 2024 | Amplifying Patient Voices, Blog, Living With Heart Disease, Updates, Updates, Writing+Memoirs
Living With Heart Disease: Heart Patients Share Real-Life Stories. Hi Friend: you are invited to a Zoom meeting. Dec 21, 2020, 01:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada). Register here. Exciting news! Heart Patients will be sharing their real-life stories. We are bringing...
by Shanthini R | May 25, 2024 | Amplifying Patient Voices, Blog, Health + Medicine, Writing+Memoirs
The picture of me in the hospital if from my operation, early 2017 – and no re-admission since Healthy eating is a good idea for everyone but it is even more important for people living with a heart pump. My pump is the Left Ventricular Assist Device or LVAD. It is...
by Shanthini R | May 25, 2024 | Amplifying Patient Voices, Amplifying Patient Voices, Blog, Updates, Writing+Memoirs
I have several articles scheduled for publication, but I could not find in myself to press ‘publish’ on anything else but #BlackLivesMatter #EndRacismNow. I figured I would let my fingers cry onto this page – some random words strung together – I hope you would find...
by Shanthini R | May 25, 2024 | Amplifying Patient Voices, Blog, Health + Medicine, Writing+Memoirs
Today is my 2nd LVAD anniversary or ‘VADiversary’. Two years ago, I had my LVAD (HeartMate3, HM3) device implanted inside my heart. The purpose of this pump is to help my failing heart function better. It has been a tough journey, of hardworking, heart, focus,...
