It happened two days after my son’s graduation from Vanderbilt, a joyful event in his life and in our midlife. We had helped him move out of his apartment, watched him say good-bye to great friends and to a college life he had loved. We made ourselves — available. I noticed that I didn’t have the …
Adela Crandell Durkee’s mother had a silent heart attack. Adela is sharing her mother’s story for American Heart Health Month – Go Red. Read more from Adela on her blog, The Black Tortoise Fourteen years ago, Dr. P diagnosed Dad with liver cancer. Sometime in the next six months, the six months we had …
The medical community has placed a great deal of emphasis on heart health, from preventive measures such as exercise and nutrition to recognizing the symptoms of a heart attack. Unfortunately, much of that emphasis has focused on men’s health, not women’s. Heart attack is the number one killer of women. And, because symptoms can be …
