{"id":30523,"date":"2019-10-12T09:17:51","date_gmt":"2019-10-12T14:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=30523"},"modified":"2019-10-12T10:15:16","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T15:15:16","slug":"rock-from-the-heart-night-ranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2019\/10\/12\/rock-from-the-heart-night-ranger\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Rock From the Heart for Aortic Health&#8221; Event Announced for February 7 &#038; 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Woo-Whoo!\u00a0 I&#8217;m excited to share that Amy and Pete Johnson are putting on the 2nd &#8220;Rock From the Heart for Aortic Health&#8221; event next February 7-8 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>During this special two-day event, you are invited to meet other patients and attend the Aortic Health Symposium, a Recognition Dinner and a Night Ranger Concert.\u00a0 To learn more, <a href=\"https:\/\/rockfromtheheart.org\/\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30531\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/..\/Images\/Rock-From-The-Heart-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"314\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If you didn&#8217;t know, Night Ranger&#8217;s drummer, Kelly Keagy, needed aortic valve replacement surgery due to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/bicuspid-aortic-valve-symptoms.php\">bicuspid aortic valve<\/a>, a common birth defect that impacts 1%-2% of the population.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Great Event!\u00a0 Great Job Amy &amp; Pete!<\/h2>\n<p>Being a HUUUUUUUUUUUGE fan of all types of music, I can&#8217;t think of a better way to raise awareness to aortic valve disease.<\/p>\n<p>Great job to Amy and Pete for coming up with this wonderful idea and then rallying the support to make it happen. Fantastic!!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30527\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/..\/Images\/amy-johnson-rock-from-heart-aortic-health.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"434\" \/>Fun Times at the 1st Rock From the Heart Event (2019)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Pete&#8217;s Journey From Patient to Advocate<\/h2>\n<p>As you may know, Pete had open heart surgery in 2017 due to severe aortic stenosis and an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/aortic-aneurysm.php\">aortic aneurysm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pete and Amy then saw an opportunity to help others get educated and empowered specific to the symptoms and the risks of heart disease.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30525\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/..\/Images\/pete-johnson-aortic-valve-patient.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"472\" \/>Pete Johnson After Aortic Valve &amp; Aneurysm Surgery<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As Amy posted, &#8220;<span class=\"x-el x-el-span c1-9 c1-a c1-9q c1-9r x-d-ux\">Pete and \u00a0I decided that once he recovered, we would find a way to help others by raising awareness of this silent killer.\u00a0 When Pete\u2019s condition was discovered, he had no symptoms.\u00a0 He felt fine.\u00a0 Had his doctor not heard that murmur and sent him for the echo, I\u2019d be telling a very different story.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"x-el x-el-span c1-9 c1-a c1-9q c1-9r x-d-ux\">Now it is our turn to give back.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30528\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/..\/Images\/pete-amy-johnson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"376\" \/>Pete &amp; Amy Johnson &#8211; Rock From the Heart Founders<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rockfromtheheart.org\/event-info\">To get all the details for &#8220;Rock From the Heart&#8221;, click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30523","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\/30523","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=30523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}