{"id":8016,"date":"2012-03-21T11:57:34","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T16:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=8016"},"modified":"2018-08-29T19:39:35","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T00:39:35","slug":"heart-valve-journals-florida-gathering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2012\/03\/21\/heart-valve-journals-florida-gathering\/","title":{"rendered":"In Florida, Heart Valve Surgery Buddies Gather To Celebrate Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The stories coming out of Heart Valve Journals have touched, moved and inspired me.\u00a0 <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last week, it was Jeff and Jim at Mount Sinai in New York. Today, its Cheryl, Peter, Duane, Peggy, Fran, Peter, Richard and Susan who recently connected in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17590\" alt=\"Heart Valve Journals Reunion\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/..\/Images\/heart-valve-journal-reunion-florida1.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><br \/>\nFran, Duane, Peter, Peggy, Susan, Richard, Peter, Cheryl<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the report from Cheryl Irvine who was at this special gathering of Heart Valve Journalists in the Sunshine State. In her note, Cheryl wrote to me:<\/p>\n<p>Hi Adam,<\/p>\n<p>Cheers from Whitby, Ontario to you and your family.\u00a0 Peter and I just got back from a trip to Florida where we had a weekend visit with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/journals\/user\/duanehunt\">Duane and Peggy Hunt<\/a> (Winter Haven, Florida), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/journals\/user\/franzilko\">Fran and Peter Zilko<\/a> (Bonita Springs, Florida) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/journals\/user\/richardingham\">Richard and Susan Ingham<\/a> (Berwick, Maine).\u00a0 We had ourselves a small Heart Valve Journals&#8217; reunion starting Friday evening and even attended Duane\u2019s church Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Your ears had to be burning &#8212; but in a good way &#8212; because you were certainly in our conversations. The continued improvements and innovations to the website never cease to amaze me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/cheryl-125.jpg\" width=\"125\" height=\"156\" \/>Cheryl Irvine &#8211; Heart Valve Surgery Patient<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Continued success.\u00a0 I just love reading your updated blogs.<\/p>\n<p>Best regards,<br \/>\nCheryl, Ontario, Canada<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8016","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\/8016","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=8016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}