{"id":24630,"date":"2018-05-24T10:03:56","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T15:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=24630"},"modified":"2025-07-10T10:54:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T15:54:16","slug":"julie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2018\/05\/24\/julie\/","title":{"rendered":"Julie&#8217;s Smiling Scar Selfie Goes Viral!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Julie&#8230; \u00a0I&#8217;m having another &#8220;Holy Moly&#8221; moment.<\/p>\n<p>What happened? \u00a0First, I saw an inspirational Smiling Scar Selfie from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/journals\/mystory\/juliegerard\">Julie Gerard<\/a> posted at our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/journals\/\">community<\/a>. \u00a0Julie just had a mitral valve repair procedure on April 19. \u00a0I loved the photo. So, I shared it at Facebook. \u00a0Then&#8230; Julie went viral. \u00a0In less than 24 hours, Julie&#8217;s picture received over 5,000 social shares, 400+ encouraging comments, and directly reached over 41,000 people around the world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24657\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/..\/Images\/julie-likes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"467\" height=\"748\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to Julie for sharing her Smiling Scar Selfie with our community! \u00a0And, thanks to you for supporting Julie as she recovers from heart valve surgery!<\/p>\n<p>Related Links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2015\/02\/05\/incision-healing-after-heart-surgery\/\">Patient Update: Cristen&#8217;s 5-Week Heart Surgery Scar Healing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/04\/02\/ointment-gel-skin-surgery-healing-mederma\/\">Mederma Scar Ointment for Heart Surgery Patients<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/08\/15\/open-heart-surgery-scar-for-women\/\">Open Heart Surgery Scars of Women: Jenny\u2019s Request<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Keep on tickin&#8217; Julie!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24630","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\/24630","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=24630"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42341,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24630\/revisions\/42341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}