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24 hours at Johns Hopkins 29 Nov 2010 | 09:08 am
“Because your whole world can change in 24 hours.” – The Paper (1994) Tuesday, November 28, 1944: Sometime during the evening of the 28th, Dr. Alfred Blalock places a telephone call to the Surgical L...
A Cure for Heart Defects! 27 Nov 2010 | 02:47 am
“I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before the decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth.” – President John F. Kennedy, May 25,...
Coming up…. 25 Nov 2010 | 03:49 am
Thanksgiving break is starting a little early, but Adventures of a Funky Heart! will resume Friday (November 26) with perhaps the most important post I’ve ever written. After that, I’ll take a break ...
Kids are tough! 24 Nov 2010 | 11:49 am
Kids are tough. They just take whatever life hands out and keep on keepin’ on. When I was at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in 1977 for my second heart surgery, I met not one, but two p...
Walking shoes, Liquid Plum’r, and Cholesterol 23 Nov 2010 | 09:29 am
There was a pretty big announcement at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2010 meetings last week: the new drug Anacetrapib is very good at raising “Good” cholesterol (HDL) while at ...
Behind Those Doors 22 Nov 2010 | 10:42 am
Karen Thurston Chavez is Co-Founder of the support group Broken Hearts of the Big Bend (BHBB) and a good friend. We met when I spoke at BHBB’s Congenital Heart Defect Symposium last year and we trade ...
Celebrate Red and Blue Day 20 Nov 2010 | 05:30 am
“What sort of day was it? A day like all days, filled with those events that alter and illuminate our times…” – You Are There, 1953 November 29, 1944: Dr. Alfred Blalock took one final look into the ...
Run the Race 19 Nov 2010 | 11:10 am
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses…let us run with patience the race that is set before us. – Hebrews 12:1 Foot on the line; lean forward. Ready…set…GO! ...
A Weighty Matter 18 Nov 2010 | 06:00 am
Some not so wonderful news to report: Children with Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) are more and more overweight. That’s not good. While Cardiac Kids may be slow to add weight when they are young, mos...
Backscatter Scanners and Pacemakers 17 Nov 2010 | 11:50 am
As you may remember, I almost flew to Atlanta for the recent Heart Walk, but changed my mind when my parents decided to attend, too. While getting my gear organized for the trip I thought about the ne...
