{"id":16900,"date":"2013-05-17T17:12:59","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T22:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=16900"},"modified":"2018-08-26T17:46:18","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T22:46:18","slug":"joann-heindorf-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2013\/05\/17\/joann-heindorf-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"Joann Just Made My Day… My Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I really appreciate hearing from the patients and caregivers in our community. Your emails and your phone calls are beyond heart warming (pun intended). That said, I just received an update from Joann Heindorf, a 78-year old patient from Florida, that was simply… extraordinary.<\/p>\n

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\nJoann Heindorf – Heart Valve Surgery Patient<\/p>\n

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Joann’s update came in the form of an envelope that was mailed to my home.<\/p>\n

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Within that envelope, I found two things.<\/p>\n

First, I found a wonderful picture of Joann smiling (shown above). Second, to my surprise, I found an 11-page handwritten note from Joann that described her journey through a series of health-related events including two cardiac procedures. While Joann, who is the mother of 3 boys and 2 girls, was initially diagnosed with a heart murmur<\/a> and mitral valve prolapse<\/a>, her first procedure actually included a mitral valve replacement, an aortic valve replacement, a tricuspid valve repair and a double coronary artery bypass graft. Then, after all that, Joann needed a mitral valve re-operation.<\/p>\n

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