General posts about life as an adult with a congenital heart defect
Over the course of my life there have been two main things my family and I have used to get thru the stress of my medical issues: humor and gratitude. Recognition and appreciation of all the good things in life, both big and small, makes […]
By most people’s standards, I had a pretty crappy summer. Just to recap all the chaos, I spent ten days in the hospital, I got diagnosed with a new medical condition, I have been on medical leave from my job for almost three months and […]
First of all, if you are reading this, I want to start by saying thank you for reading and supporting The Feisty Fontan. If you are one of my thirteen blog subscribers, you may have noticed that I was pretty gung ho with my blog […]
If you are facing a big scary medical test, which you are already very nervous about and involves a very large needle, don’t be the idiot who does a Google image search for “how big is a liver biopsy needle” because you will just freak […]
I keep using the phrase “how the mighty have fallen” to joke about the drastic change my life has taken in the past month. “How the mighty have fallen…last month I was drinking Diet Cokes with abandon, today I am peeing into a vacuum.” “How […]
“You sure don’t look sick.” “You would never know that something was wrong with you just by looking at you.” “Well, at least you look healthy.” If I had a nickel for every time I have heard one of the above sentences, I would probably […]
Well, I’ve started a blog. Never thought I was that self important but I guess I am. But honestly, why not start a blog? I like to write; at work nothing makes me happier than getting to write an strongly worded email reminding a manager […]