http://www.heart-valve-surgery.com/heart-surgery-blog/2009/07/09/close-to-my-heart-artistic-portraits/ Former Patient And Author, Adam Pick, Blogs About Heart Valve Replacement And Heart Valve Repair Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:18:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.heart-valve-surgery.com/heart-surgery-blog/2009/07/09/close-to-my-heart-artistic-portraits/comment-page-1/#comment-12150 Marie Papa-Vavrovsky Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:16:39 +0000 http://www.heart-valve-surgery.com/heart-surgery-blog/2009/07/09/close-to-my-heart-artistic-portraits/#comment-12150 I am moved by the determination and dedication of our dear friend Angelica. I am a 38 year old heart valve patient and I was speaking to her of the changes one goes through to live with the scar. While some scowl most recognize it as a badge of honor. Angelica is an amazing empowering woman who helped me go for my dreams too. My husband and I packed up and left our cushy life in Fort Laud. FL and moved to Fort Scott, KS. We are now living in an abandoned 42,000 sq ft school we purchased and we are aspiring to build a community art center and art retreat called the Painted Blackboard. I thank god for Angelica and I hope to soon be a member of her photo series. If we are fortunate we too will be exhibiting her grand exposition at the Painted Blackboard. Thank you and here's to you for your courage to coach people through a very challenging time that comes with little instruction or coping supervision. I wish I had your book when I had my open-heart two years ago. I am gracious to have emerged from my replacement a fulfilled woman. I am moved by the determination and dedication of our dear friend Angelica. I am a 38 year old heart valve patient and I was speaking to her of the changes one goes through to live with the scar. While some scowl most recognize it as a badge of honor. Angelica is an amazing empowering woman who helped me go for my dreams too. My husband and I packed up and left our cushy life in Fort Laud. FL and moved to Fort Scott, KS. We are now living in an abandoned 42,000 sq ft school we purchased and we are aspiring to build a community art center and art retreat called the Painted Blackboard. I thank god for Angelica and I hope to soon be a member of her photo series. If we are fortunate we too will be exhibiting her grand exposition at the Painted Blackboard.
Thank you and here’s to you for your courage to coach people through a very challenging time that comes with little instruction or coping supervision. I wish I had your book when I had my open-heart two years ago. I am gracious to have emerged from my replacement a fulfilled woman.

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