{"id":36824,"date":"2023-04-13T09:47:30","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T14:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=36824"},"modified":"2023-04-13T11:05:21","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T16:05:21","slug":"mitral-patient-dance-mara-katz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2023\/04\/13\/mitral-patient-dance-mara-katz\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitral Valve Awareness: Mara Dances Past Mitral Valve Surgery!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is downright wonderful to receive so many enthusiastic patient emails about “Mitral Valve Disease Awareness Week<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

First, I shared Howard’s story<\/a>. This time, I am happy to share Mara Katz’s journey to a healthy heart.<\/p>\n

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\"Mitral<\/p>\n

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Mara Says…<\/h2>\n

In her email, Mara writes to me:<\/p>\n

Hi Adam – I\u2019m so glad for the Mitral Valve Disease Awareness Week initiative. Luckily, my leaky mitral valve was found during an annual physical by my internist. When I was first diagnosed, I was put on an annual monitoring protocol (aka watchful waiting).\u00a0\u00a0My mitral valve leak started to progress and inevitably I needed a mitral valve repair.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not an exact science and I chose to have the minimally-invasive repair sooner-than-later with Dr. Aubrey Galloway in New York City. My 4-year anniversary is coming up on April 16. I am so grateful the surgery is in my rear view mirror.<\/p>\n

Your website was really helpful when I was in the midst of this crazy journey. Thank you!<\/p>\n

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\"Mitral<\/p>\n

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People were so surprised that I had open heart surgery. I am a lifelong dancer. I’m very active, fit and healthy. I would explain about my leaky mitral valve. They always wanted to know how I found out that I had this condition. The point being there is very little awareness about this heart condition.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sometimes, I honestly forget I even went through mitral valve surgery which is crazy but awesome. Except when I have checkups and echocardiograms. \ud83d\ude31<\/p>\n

I remember a lot of redo stories on your site. Throughout my journey, I really needed a community of other heart valve patients<\/a> to tap into at the time. I am a private person and have three kids.\u00a0 So, I really didn\u2019t share too much.\u00a0 I just wanted to go inside, focus and do what I had to. Keep up the great and important work Adam!<\/p>\n

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\"MitralMara with Eli (Her Husband)<\/p>\n

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Thanks Mara!<\/h2>\n

On behalf of our patient community, thanks so much to Mara for sharing her story and her support during Mitral Valve Disease Awareness Week<\/a>!<\/p>\n

I have to share with you… It is these stories that make my day, my week, my year, and my life.<\/p>\n

Keep on tickin’ Mara!
\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36824","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\/36824","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=36824"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36855,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36824\/revisions\/36855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}