{"id":35430,"date":"2022-10-01T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T14:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=35430"},"modified":"2022-10-06T09:47:48","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T14:47:48","slug":"dr-gillinov-patients-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2022\/10\/01\/dr-gillinov-patients-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"Ginny, Lisa &#038; Randy Celebrate Their Fixed Hearts, Dr. Gillinov &#038; Our Community!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The patient stories in our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/journals\/\">community<\/a> just keep getting better-and-better.<\/p>\n<p>For example, a huge smile just crossed my face as I opened this email from Ginny Turner, a mitral valve patient.\u00a0 Here is what Ginny wrote to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeons\/dr-Marc-Gillinov-Cleveland-Ohio.php\">Dr. Marc Gillinov, her surgeon,<\/a> and me:<\/p>\n<p>Hi Dr. Gillinov and Adam,<\/p>\n<p>Look what happened yesterday at a quaint lunch spot just outside of Austin, Texas!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35431\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/..\/Images\/ginny-lisa-randy.jpg\" alt=\"Heart Valve Patients from HeartValveSurgery.com\" width=\"700\" height=\"542\" \/>Lisa, Randy and Ginny (Heart Valve Patients)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Last year, Louise (Lisa) Moore from Jacksonville, FL, Randy Chapman from Austin, and I connected in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/journals\/\">HeartValveSurgery.com community<\/a> as we anticipated and prepared for our upcoming valve surgeries. We were all fortunate enough to be patients of Dr. Gillinov&#8217;s, traveling to Cleveland in January, February and March of this year for our surgeries.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, we and our spouses met in person for the first time, enjoying a beautiful fall day in Austin and some great conversation about our heart experiences. We all expressed our gratitude for our hero, Dr. Gillinov, and for the support and encouragement from Adam and all the folks on HeartValveSurgery.com who gave us such hope.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/..\/Images\/gillinov-marc-md-cleveland.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Marc Gillinov\" width=\"300\" height=\"410\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeons\/dr-Marc-Gillinov-Cleveland-Ohio.php\">Dr. Marc Gillinov<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We appreciate all you do for valve patients and wanted you to know that life is good, and we plan to keep on tickin&#8217; (and to stay in touch), for a long time! Here&#8217;s to happy hearts, gratitude, and friendship.<\/p>\n<p>With appreciation,<\/p>\n<p>Ginny Turner<br \/>\nCrockett, Texas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35430","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\/35430","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=35430"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35501,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35430\/revisions\/35501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}