{"id":18233,"date":"2014-04-01T19:37:23","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T00:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=18233"},"modified":"2018-08-24T15:20:53","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T20:20:53","slug":"patient-reunion-florida-spring-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2014\/04\/01\/patient-reunion-florida-spring-break\/","title":{"rendered":"This HVJ Gang Reunites In Florida&#8230; Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Spring approaches, there is much to get excited about&#8230; The return of warm weather, long days full of sunshine, family trips, baseball, barbecues, blooming flowers, and the joy of being outside.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I look forward to receiving a special picture as Spring arrives. For, as you can see below, the HVJ gang of Duane, Cheryl, Richard and Fran, reunited &#8212; once again &#8212; in Florida to celebrate their fixed hearts, each other, their spouses and the Spring season. (I think this is now the third annual event!)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18234 aligncenter\" alt=\"Spring-Break-Heart-Valve-Reunite\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/..\/Images\/Spring-Break-Heart-Valve-Reunite.jpg\" width=\"475\" height=\"370\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In moments like this, I marvel at the power of the Internet. To think that these four patients would face a life threatening heart valve disease, at the same time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/journals\/\">meet online<\/a>, go on to have successful surgeries, and then continue to be such great friends afterwards&#8230; makes me smile. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to Duane, Fran, Cheryl, Richard and their spouses &#8212; Peggy, Peter, Susan and Peter &#8212; for sharing this picture with me. Now, I know Spring is coming on strong.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To connect with our patient community, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/journals\/\">click here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18233","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\/18233","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=18233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}