{"id":16792,"date":"2013-04-19T08:36:49","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T13:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=16792"},"modified":"2018-08-26T17:57:37","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T22:57:37","slug":"2nd-annual-heart-valve-reunion-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2013\/04\/19\/2nd-annual-heart-valve-reunion-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Spring Break&#8230; Another Heart Valve Journals Reunion in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is just great.<\/p>\n<p>I was just surfing through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/journals\/\">Heart Valve Journals<\/a> when I came across a wonderful update from Cheryl Irvine. Cheryl is a long-time journalist and mitral valve surgery patient. In some regard, Cheryl is a metaphorical &#8220;Mom&#8221; of the patient community.<\/p>\n<p>As you might recall from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2012\/03\/21\/heart-valve-journals-florida-gathering\/\">this post<\/a>, Cheryl, who lives in Ontario, Canada, organized a spring break reunion of several patients from HVJ in Florida in 2012. Well, this year&#8230; She did it again!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16793 aligncenter\" alt=\"sping-break-heart-valve-reunion\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/..\/Images\/sping-break-heart-valve-reunion.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"374\" \/>Duane, Peggy, Peter, Cheryl, Fran, Duane<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>As Cheryl writes, &#8220;Just dropping by to add a couple of pictures to my journal. For the second year in a row we arranged a small get-together in sunny Florida with HVJ friends Duane and Peggy Hunt and Fran and Peter Zilko. Unfortunately Susan and Richard Ingham couldn&#8217;t attend in person so we managed to visit via Skype.&#8221; To read more from Cheryl&#8217;s journal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/journals\/user\/cherylirvine\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks so much to Cheryl for sharing the picture and the reunion update from Florida!<\/p>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-patient-stories"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}