Footprint on mon coeur.
dis-ease of broken heart or
evidence d’ amour?
I’ve “borrowed” again from Carolyn Thomas’ My Heart Sisters:
“This year, heart disease will kill six times more women than breast cancer will. In fact, heart disease kills more women each year than all forms of cancer combined.”
Watch this 3-minute film called “Just a Little Heart Attack” from the American Heart Association. It was originally brought to my attention by Carolyn Thomas. Please share with others.
And READ THIS from Carolyn
“When other researchers reporting in the New England Journal of Medicine looked at more than 10,000 patients (48% women) who had gone to their hospital Emergency Departments with chest pain or other heart attack symptoms, they found that women under the age of 55 are SEVEN TIMES more likely to be misdiagnosed in mid-heart attack than their male counterparts are.”
My mother was one of the “statistics,” because the doctors were unable to read the signs of an impending heart attack…
Footprint
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Magic,
Yet another avoidable tragedy. It is mind boggling how many women have died and whose families have lost a Mother, wife, daughter because doctors simply didn’t (and some still don’t) understand that men and women are different. I’m sorry for your loss.
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Clever!
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Awesome haiku Judith … love the way you have in twined English and French in this one.
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Merci very much!
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A unique haiku today and lots of good advice and information. Well done.
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Excellent post, Judy. Keep spreading the word.
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I should wear my red dress pin everyday to remind myself to remind other women. A local hospital runs a women and heart disease clinic which is informative and “testable.”
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Phylor,
I’ve got to get me a red dress pin. My current heart monitor is white plastic!
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You know, Judy Judith, I really should give you that 20 bucks I told you I’d slip you if you mentioned my blog enough times here . . .
THX! 🙂 XOXOXO
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Carolyn,
Donate it to Heart research!
P.S. $20?????? I thought it was $120
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