My Journey with Familial Hypercholesterolemia and Heart Disease

"In the end, when we look at our life, the questions will be simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?"
(Jack Kornfield)
"The proper function of a man is to live, not to exist." (Jack London)

Saturday, August 2, 2025

“Heart Sisters”

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Heart disease is not something to muck about with ... Sometimes, you live with it for a very long time, and sometimes you have no idea you h...

Saturday, July 26, 2025

The End of an Era: "Good Bye, Praluent. Hello, Repatha."

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I have had a long, sinuous, adventuresome path with PCSK9 inhibitor drugs. A complete unknown when my FH was diagnosed 42 years ago, a drea...

Saturday, June 14, 2025

Yearly Carotid Ultrasound and New Numbers

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Part of the FH and heart-disease journey is to familiarize yourself with a life peppered by doctors’ appointments. And yes, that is not a ty...

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

It’s a Numbers’ and a Guessing Game

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As I am watching the splash-down of Crew 9 coming back from the orbit back to earth on CNN (Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore), I am thinking:...

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

The Heart Month

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US president Johnson announced that February was Heart Health Awareness month in 1964 “to give heed to the nationwide problem of the heart a...

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