Blog Post from My Journey with Familial Hypercholesterolemia and Heart Disease
So, I am back in cardiac rehab – two years and 6 months after my surgery. It feels odd, and a bit tardy, but I only have so much energy to argue with my cardiologist.
The reason he sent me back is because I still … Read More
Blog Post from My Journey with Familial Hypercholesterolemia and Heart Disease
Caveat: this is not the norm!
I have talked about this before (https://livingwithfh.blogspot.com/2017/04/a-helpful-health-insurance-alas-there.html), and as anyone taking Praluent or Repatha knows: ordering a new … Read More
Blog Post from My Journey with Familial Hypercholesterolemia and Heart Disease
I have been pondering upon life and the resilience we have, the stubbornness we have come equipped with from birth to embrace it. To fight on. To stay on the path of making ourselves stronger and to live.
This piece … Read More
Blog Post from My Journey with Familial Hypercholesterolemia and Heart Disease
If you might remember and follow this saga, my new cardiologist suggested that I needed to have a heart catheterization, to find out more details about the status of the blood flow in my heart (http://livingwithfh.blogspot.com/2018/04/more-questions-than-answers.html) … Read More
Blog Post from My Journey with Familial Hypercholesterolemia and Heart Disease
I was given a rare opportunity this spring, to speak to a class of Medical and Pharmacy students at the Medical School in my home town of Iasi, Romania. I did not even blink when my friend, who teaches English there, … Read More
Blog Post from My Journey with Familial Hypercholesterolemia and Heart Disease
Sometimes I wonder: “What is purpose of seeking to feel better? Have I not learned that I will never ever feel like I am running on 100% capacity, firing on all cylinders?! My HoFH will continue to do damage, my heart … Read More
Blog Post from My Journey with Familial Hypercholesterolemia and Heart Disease
My then new cardiologist recommended I’d see an endocrinologist for treating my cholesterol back in December (http://livingwithfh.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-tricky-balance-between-trusting.html). He tweaked a couple … Read More
Blog Post from My Journey with Familial Hypercholesterolemia and Heart Disease
When I first started this blog there were virtually no resources to use as reference for my disease. All I knew is that I have a rare form of Familial Hypercholesterolemia, but at that time I didn’t have a name … Read More
Blog Post from My Journey with Familial Hypercholesterolemia and Heart Disease
It’s been two years now, since my very involved heart surgery, and what I consider my re-birth, really. Every year on my anniversary, I read through my story which I wrote right after being released from the hospital, … Read More
Blog Post from My Journey with Familial Hypercholesterolemia and Heart Disease
I have talked before about my heart worries, about the fear that I have that all is not well in my heart after all (see this entry from last month: https://livingwithfh.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-tricky-balance-between-trusting.html).
Although … Read More
