Love Your Heart: Patient Stories
As part of the Go Red For Women movement, women who have had their own experiences with heart disease share their stories to encourage other women to "Love Your Heart."
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Proof Positive: It's Never Too Late to Change
Think you're too old to change your diet and exercise habits to help your heart health? Too set in your ways? Helen Martinson will tell you otherwise. She was 79 when she did just that following a heart attack in 2009, and she's seen the difference.
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She Walks the Walk: A Lifelong Rehabilitation
Judy Ettinger considered herself "as healthy as could be," but still needed bypass surgery to correct a dangerous heart condition in 1996. She fully embraced her rehabilitation - and continues to do so 14 years after her life-threatening cardiac incident. Described as a "model patient," Ettinger walks up to 60 miles per week and recently was among the top finishers in her age group after walking a half-marathon.
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After Go Red Makeover, Walk Holds Special Spot in Her Heart
Amanda Frigge has participated in the American Heart Association's Madison-area Heart Walk in the past, but the 2010 event was a special one for her. Frigge made a commitment to improve her heart health earlier in the year, participating in the Go Red for Women Makeover. It's made a big difference to her.
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One Mom's Healthy Change of Heart
Kelly Thomas dealt with poor cholesterol and high blood pressure for years. But when it threatened her life and her child’s, she knew she had to make heart health a priority.
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Are You at Risk?
Like these women, you may be at risk for heart disease and you don't even realize it. Our hearts are in our hands - and by seeing your health care provider and getting a blood test and blood pressure test, we can save them. Assess your heart health now. Take the Go Red Heart CheckUp.
