{"id":24242,"date":"2018-02-22T00:50:37","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T05:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=24242"},"modified":"2019-02-26T18:34:19","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T23:34:19","slug":"national-heart-valve-awareness-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2018\/02\/22\/national-heart-valve-awareness-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Today Is National Heart Valve Disease Awareness Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Woo-Whoo!! \u00a0Double Woo-Whoo!! \u00a0Triple Woo-Whoo!!<\/p>\n

Today is the 2nd annual National Heart Valve Disease Awareness Day!!! \u00a0On this special day, 20+ organizations<\/a>\u00a0have joined together to raise awareness to heart valve disease… \u00a0A disease that is under-diagnosed and under-treated… \u00a0A disease that needs more awareness… \u00a0A disease that threatened my life!!!<\/p>\n

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So you know… We can’t do it alone. \u00a0We need your help. \u00a0That’s right! \u00a0Today, patients from all over the planet will unite to form an empowering force for good! We need your help to educate the world about the symptoms, the causes, the risks and the treatments of heart valve disease.<\/p>\n

“How can I help?” you might be wondering. \u00a0(Yay! I was hoping you might be thinking that. \u00a0Scroll down for the answer.)<\/p>\n

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Join Me At Facebook, HVS, Twitter & LinkedIn!<\/h2>\n

First… To support this effort, you can join me and 290,000+ members at our Facebook page<\/a>. I’ll be sharing educational information LIVE about valve disease throughout the day. \u00a0Each time you share a post, you are directly and immediately educating your family and friends. \u00a0Here’s the neat part. \u00a0If your loved ones share your posts… Guess What? \u00a0That information could help reach millions of people. \u00a0No joke. With a simple “Like” or “Share”, you could save a life!!!<\/p>\n

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An “Events List” to Guide Your Day!<\/h2>\n

The second way you can support the 2018 National Heart Valve Disease Awareness Day is by attending the online and offline events found at the ValveDiseaseDay.org website<\/a>. \u00a0As you will see, the day is packed with Twitter Chats, Patient Receptions, Lunch Panels, Valve Clinic Openings, WomenHeart Ceremonies and… A Ringing of the New York Stock Exchange Closing Bell. \u00a0See the complete “Events” list here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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In Advance… Thanks For Your Support!!!<\/h2>\n

On behalf of our community, I would like to extend a tremendous “Thank You” to the Alliance for Aging Research<\/a>\u00a0(that means you Sue Peschin and Lindsay Clarke) for organizing this event – along with all the partners, hospitals and sponsors of this very special day. In addition, I would like thank you — the members of our community. \u00a0You guys and gals are downright awesome. \u00a0I love being a part of this community. \u00a0I love fighting this disease with you. \u00a0You inspire me day-after-day-after-day!!!<\/p>\n

Now, let’s rise up and raise awareness to this disease which need more attention, more education, more care and more love!!!<\/p>\n

Keep on tickin!
\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adams-updates"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24242","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=24242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}