Mellanie True Hills is CEO of StopAfib.org (http://www.StopAfib.org). As an atrial fibrillation patient, she lived in fear and knows what it’s like to suffer with afib. You can read her story at http://www.StopAfib.org/mellanie.cfm. Following her atrial fibrillation surgery in 2005, her mission became to help others find their own solutions to this afib...
My husband, Steve S. Ryan, PhD, and I publish the website, Atrial Fibrillation: Resources for Patients, (A-Fib.corn), a non-profit patient education site now in its 10th year. Steve was cured of his A-Fib in 1998, and shares all he has learned to help others find their cure too.
I watched over Mom and Dad for many years as their health and memories began to fail. In 2005, they moved in with us. In December of last year, they moved into assisted living. In May of this year, Dad passed away.
During all of this, I developed high blood pressure and high cholesterol, had occasional episodes of lone atrial fibrillation, and was diagnosed with CLL (chronic lymphocytic...
As a mother of two healthy, busy boys I was taken back when my third child was diagnosed with a soup of congenital heart defects (CHD) while still in utero. His conditions include: double inlet left ventricle (DILV), Transposition of the Great Arteries (TGA), a large ASD which has now been modified to create a single atrium, pulmonary atresia, and dextrocardia. He has already undergone two open...
